The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“The most emblematic woman writer of her time.”—New York Times Book Review“One of the great results of Miss Mansfield’s poetic temperament is that beauty is the general condition of her story.”—Rebecca West on The Garden Party for the New Statesman“Miss Manfield’s story—it is one of her best known—is brief, poignant and in the best sense, slight… . and indeed our satisfaction recognizes the skill with which the author has handled perfectly the minimum material.”—T. S. Eliot on Bliss“Beautifully written, with a touch that one might best describe as delicate. Yet it is pitiless and clear-eyed in its engagement with class, its questioning of the willful blindness and privileges of the upper middle-classes. It is my idea of the perfect story.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on The Garden Party for the Center for Fiction’s Model Short Story series

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was born and raised in New Zealand. She moved to England at nineteen and spent much of her life thereafter in London, where she became a prominent modernist author and moved in the same circles as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and other members of the Bloomsbury Group. She published three collections of short stories in her lifetime, including Bliss and The Garden Party. After she died of tuberculosis at age thirty-four, her husband published two additional volumes of her short fiction as well as posthumous collections of her poetry, letters, and journals.

Sloane Crosley is the author of the memoir Grief Is for People, the novels Cult Classic and The Clasp, and the essay collections Look Alive Out There, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake. She lives in New York City.

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