The Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Poems from New Zealands greatest writer and her tragically young life

Katherine was born on the 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five.

A gifted celloist, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally but writing gradually began to move to the forefront of her interests. Her first writings were published at an early age in school magazines.

At 19 Katherine left for England where she met and befriended the modernist writers D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf amongst others. She then travelled t...