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Katherine Mansfield (1888—1923), British short-story writer, was born in Wellington, New Ze

aland. She is considered one of the greatest

of the short-story form.

At the age of 18 she in London to study music and to herself as a writer. In 1918 she married English literary ，John Middleton Murry.

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Mansfield's middle class provided the setting for many of her stories and mortality—perhaps due to her

illness—dominated her writing. Her

years were burdened with ,

illness, jealousy and —all

reflected from her work in the bitter

of marital and family relationships of

her middle-class characters.

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loneliness

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As a New Zealand's most famous writer, she was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Her short st

ories are also notable for their use of

. Much influenced by Russia

n writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted

events and _____ changes in human behavior.

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Outside the sky is light with stars; There's a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree.

How little I thought, a year ago, In the horrible cottage upon the Lee That he and I should be sitting so And sipping a cup of camomile tea.

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——by Katherine Mansfield

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Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin toasts a bumble-bee.

We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee.

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Our shutters are shut, the fire is low, The tap is dripping peacefully;

The saucepan shadows on the wall Are black and round and plain to see.

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