Published in 1922, The Garden Party and Other Stories is Katherine Mansfield’s third and most acclaimed collection of short stories. In addition to the title piece, it includes fourteen other masterful stories, including ‘At the Bay’ and ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel.’ Set in post-World War I Europe and New Zealand, Mansfield captures the psychology and inner lives of her characters through free indirect discourse and sudden moments of realization and insight. Many of The Garden Party stories were written between 1920 and 1921 when Mansfield was both at the height of her literary powers and seriously ill with tuberculosis, to which she succumbed in 1923. Includes a review of the 1922 edition by Rebecca West, an essay by Mansfield scholar Joanna Woods, and a detailed biographical timeline.
Table of Content
Contents
At the Bay
The Garden Party
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Mr. and Mrs. Dove
The Young Girl
Life of Ma Parker
Marriage A la Mode
The Voyage
Miss Brill
Her First Ball
The Singing Lesson
The Stranger
Bank Holiday
An Ideal Family
The Lady’s Maid
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923 by Joanna Woods
‘Notes on Novels: The Garden Party’ by Rebecca West
Biographical Timeline
About the author
Joanna Woods was born in Dublin but has been based in New Zealand for many years. She gained her doctorate on Katherine Mansfield from Moscow State University, subsequently published as Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield (2001).
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