Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Carnation is the evocative story of a French class in a girls’ school, teenage hormones and daydreams, a heat wave, a teacher with an embarrassing penchant for romantic poetry … and a carnation …
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Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on the development of the short story form.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.