Publisher Description
First published in 1911, Katherine Mansfield’s collection In a German Pension was inspired by her extended stay in a spa town in Bavaria in 1909, during which she suffered a miscarriage. The collection brought her instant fame and popularity as a short story writer, particularly as her amusing—though less than favourable—caricatures of the Germans were very popular at that time.
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“Pitting a breezy English sensibility against stuffy German manners makes this the funniest, most caustic collection of Mansfield’s stories.”
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Guardian (London)
About Katherine Mansfield
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 subsequent writers in the same genre.