Katherine Mansfield Quotes


Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.


Citations

Mansfield, Katherine. The Journal of Katherine Mansfield. Edited by John Middleton Murry, Constable & Co., 1927.

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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
  • Born: October 14, 1888
  • Died: January 9, 1923
  • Nationality: New Zealander
  • Profession: Author

Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand. She wrote short stories and poetry under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, she left colonial New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917 and she died in France aged 34.