I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield Writer
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: New Zealand
- Born: Oct 14, 1888
- Died: Jan 9, 1923
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.