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In December 1917, at the age of 29, Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. For part of Spring and Summer 1918, she joined her friend Anne Estelle Rice, an American painter, at Looe in Cornwall with the hope of recovering. While there, Rice painted a portrait of her dressed in red, a vibrant сolour Mansfield liked and suggested herself. The Portrait of Katherine Mansfield is now held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Mansfield`s most famous short stories.

• Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: "The Tiredness of Rosabel", "The Swing of the Pendulum", "The Woman at the Store", "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped", "Ole Underwood", "Millie", "The Little Governess", "An Indiscreet Journey", "The Wind Blows", "Prelude", "A Dill Pickle", "Bliss", "Psychology", "Pictures", "The Man Without a Temperament", "Revelations", "The Escape", "The Young Girl", "The Stranger", "Miss Brill", "Poison", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", "Her First Ball", "At the Bay", "The Voyage", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", "The Fly", and "The Canary".

The Garden Party

• ‘The Garden Party’ (1920) is probably Katherine Mansfield`s best-known and best-loved story. She never wrote a full-length novel, but – taking her cue from such innovators as Anton Chekhov – made the short story form her own. A few words by way of plot summary first. As its title suggests, ‘The Garden Party’ centers on the annual garden party held by the Sheridan family at their home, in New Zealand.

The Sheridans are well-off – upper-middle-class we might say – as is suggested by the very idea of the ‘garden party’ itself. One of the Sheridan children, Laura – a young woman on the cusp of adulthood – is looking forward to the party and is keen to become involved in the preparations. However, while the Sheridans are preparing for their party, news arrives that a working-class man who lives in the poorer part of the village has been tragically killed when his horse reared up and threw him from his cart.