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Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was born in Wellington New Zealand on the 14 October 1888 and left for England when her age was 19. There she met members of what is called the ‘Modernist” movement in literature and that is when she began her journey to becoming the most famous of New Zealand’s literary exports. She would later be credited with changing the way short stories were written, after her own style of writing evolved over her years of association with famous authors such as Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Bertrand Russell to name a few.
Her life was a short one, dying of tuberculosis at the early age of 34, but what she accomplished in that short time was to create several of the most astounding short stories and works of literature that contemporary authors had ever seen. Not only this, but her writing style changed the face of short story writing around the world.
In Wellington she was born into a fairly prominent family. Her mother, Annie Beauchamp, was a dedicated housewife and Harold Beauchamp, her father, was a successful banker who went on to become the Bank of New Zealand’s chairman of and later was knighted.
The place that she spent her childhood years had a massive impact on her writing. The house in Thorndon has been acknowledged as the inspiration for some of Mansfield’s most beloved works such as The Wind Blows, The Aloe, A Birthday, The Doll’s House and Prelude.
Today that house is a prominent tourist attraction that shows visitors not only the life of the famed author Kathrine Mansfield, but also takes them back to a time when stoves burned wood and it was letters, not emails, that was man’s medium of communication. The house has been beautifully preserved and renovated. Visitors from all over the world come here to hear about Mrs. Mansfield’s early life. For those with a keener interest in this age, the house can be rented out for an event or even a wedding.
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