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1、KatherineMansfield,王 赫 1120103277,Katherine Mansfield,A feminist pioneer,Lifetime,Birth Katherine Mansfield Murray was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family on October 14，1888. Her father, Harold Beauchamp, was a banker and her mother, Annie Burnell Dyer, was of gentee
2、l(上流社会的) origins.,Childhood She lived for six years in the rural village of Karori. Later on Mansfield said “I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle (废话) it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything than nothing at all. At the age of nine she had her first text published.,Adolesce
3、nce As a first step to her rebellion against her background, she withdrew to London in 1903 and studied at Queens College, where she joined the staff of the College Magazine. Back in New Zealand in 1906, she then took up music, and had affairs with both men and women. Her father denied her the oppor
4、tunity to become a professional cello (大提琴) player - she was an accomplished violoncellist.,Adulthood In 1908 she studied typing and bookkeeping at Wellington Technical College. Her lifelong friend Ida Baker persuaded Mansfields father to allow Katherine to move back to England, with an allowance of
5、 100 pound a year. There she devoted herself to writing. Mansfield never visited New Zealand again.,Back in London In 1908, Mansfield quickly fell into the bohemian(波希米亚的) way of life lived by many artists and writers of that era (although she only published one story and one poem during her first 1
6、5 months there).,Marriage First One: She had an unhappy marriage in 1909 to George Brown, whom she left a few days after the wedding. Before the marriage, she had an affair with Garnett Trowell, a musician, and became pregnant. In Bavaria, where Mansfield spent some time, she suffered a miscarriage.
7、,Second marriage: In 1911 Mansfield met John Middleton Murray, a Socialist and former literary critic, who was first a tenant（房客） in her flat, then her lover. Mansfield co-edited and contributed to a series of journals. In 1918 Mansfield divorced her first husband and married John Murray. In the sam
8、e year she was found to have tuberculosis（肺结核）.,Death In her last years Mansfield lived much of her time in southern France and in Switzerland, seeking relief from tuberculosis. Without the company of her literary friends, family, or her husband, she wrote much about her own roots and her childhood.
9、 Mansfield died of a pulmonary hemorrhage (肺出血) on January 9, 1923.Her last words were: I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.,Mansfield was a prolific writer. During her short life of 34, she finished 73 short stories. Katherines stories playful and teasing, darkly satirical, lyrical
10、 and poignant point us beyond words to a relationship with life that is profound and urgent.,Works,Short stories In a German pension (1911) (collection) The Woman At The Store (1912) How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (1912) Millie (1913) Something Childish But Very Natural (1914) The Little Governess (
11、1915) Pictures (1917) Feuille dAlbum (1917) A Dill Pickle (1917) Je ne parle pas franais (1917) Prelude (1918),Works,Short stories An Indiscreet Journey (1920) Bliss (1920) (collection) Miss Brill (1920) Psychology (1920) Sun and Moon (1920) The Wind Blows (1920) Mr Reginald Peacocks Day (1920) Marr
12、iage la Mode (1921) The Voyage (1921) Her First Ball (1921) Mr and Mrs Dove (1921),Works,Short stories The Stranger (1921) The Daughters of the Late Colonel (1921) The Man Without a Temperament (1921) At The Bay (1922) The Garden Party (1922) (collection) A Cup of Tea (1922) The Dolls House (1922) A
13、 Married Mans Story (1923) The Canary (1923) The Doves nest (1923) (collection) Something childish (1923) (collection),Works,The influence of Katherines writing was profound. In her works, Mansfield thrusts sharp criticism at the patriarchal system(父权社会) that uses it value to confine women to their interior position in the society and family.Through Mansfields innovation, the short story began to gain popularity and finally became an important and independent genre of the 20th century literature.,Influence,Thats all Thank you!,
