The Garden Party: "I'm a writer first and a woman after."

In this volume we're very pleased to bring you Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party'. She was born on 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand the middle child of five. A gifted Cello, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally the young Katherine’s first writings were published in school magazines. At 19 Katherine left for Great Britain and met the modernist writers D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. She tra...