# Katherine Mansfield

> She turned the short story into a scalpel - spare, nervy, modernist - and did it from the far edge of the empire. New Zealand-born, Europe-bound at 19, she carved out anxiety and desire in prose that still cuts, published now in 25 languages.

*New Zealand author (1888-1923)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/katherine-mansfield

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Born:** 1888-10-14
- **Died:** 1923-01-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Kathleen Beauchamp grew up on Tinakori Road in Wellington, third child in a comfortable family, schooled in Karori and later at the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School. There she befriended Maata Mahupuku, a muse and likely lover whose pull shaped early work. At 19 she left New Zealand for England and never went back, writing under Katherine Mansfield and circling the Bloomsbury set - D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Her stories probed sexuality, faith, dread, and what it meant to carry a young country's identity in old-world rooms. In 1917 came the tuberculosis diagnosis. She died in France in 1923, six years later, at 34.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 60.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 5.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 28.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1944195/ (@nm1944195)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.katherinemansfield.com/

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