Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), pen name of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp), was a prominent New Zealand writer, essayist, and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important modernist authors. Rebecca West (1892-1983) was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. Her major works include the modernist World War I novel The Return of the Soldier (1918), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), A Train of Powder (1955), The Meaning of Treason (1947), The New Meaning of Treason (1964), and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels. Joanna Woods was born in Dublin but has been based in New Zealand for many years. She earned her doctorate on Katherine Mansfield from Moscow State University, subsequently published as Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield (2001).
"The only writing I have ever been jealous of."-Virginia Woolf
"Mansfield is brilliant-she has...a fine, infinitely inquisitive
sensibility."-Conrad Aiken
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