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A Cup of Tea. " A Cup of Tea " is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Story-Teller in May 1922. It later appeared in The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (1923). [1] Her short stories first appeared in Melbourne in 1907, but literary fame came to her in London after the publication of a collection of short ...
Harold Beauchamp (father) Elizabeth von Arnim (cousin) Website. Official website. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages.
Plot summary. Reginald is woken up by his wife for breakfast. He is irritated by his wife who is very polite with him. He has a bath, sings for a bit and fathoms he could be an opera singer. The couple then have a minor spat over the fact that she cooks for him, instead of having a servant doing it for them.
A Dill Pickle. " A Dill Pickle " is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the New Age on 4 October 1917. [1] A revised version later appeared in Bliss and Other Stories. [2] The characters and their relationship possibly were inspired by Mansfield's older sister Vera Margaret Beauchamp and her husband James ...
Plot summary. A man visits a woman for tea. He tells her this is the only place he pays attention to in terms of its furniture and so on. He also loves her 'little boy'. They then talk about the state of the novel as a literary genre - coming to the conclusion that the psycho-novel is shoddy. She feels anguished about possibly having failed in ...
After a phone call from her husband, who is running late, Bertha thinks ahead to who will attend the party that evening. A couple, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Knight (close friends to Bertha and Harry), Eddie Warren, a neurotic and sought-after writer, and Pearl, a strange, mysterious young woman that Bertha has taken a liking to after meeting at a club.
The Doll's House (short story) " The Doll's House " is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Nation and Atheneum on 4 February 1922 and subsequently appeared in The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (1923). Mansfield used an alternative title in other editions, including " At Karori ".
The Garden Party (short story) " The Garden Party " is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published (as " The Garden-Party ") in three parts in the Saturday Westminster Gazette on 4 and 11 February 1922, and the Weekly Westminster Gazette on 18 February 1922. [1] It later appeared in The Garden Party and Other Stories. [2]