Also her mother sees no reason to cancel everything and even seems amused by her daughter’s idea. The beautiful morning is shadowed by the fatal horse accident of a young carter from the poor cottages at the foot of the hill where the Sheridans’ house stands, but Laura’s compassion and wish to stop the party out of respect for widow and children is only called extravagant by her elder sister Jose. Only the second is the title story which shows young Laura Sheridan and her well-to-do family on the day of The Garden Party. The collection The Garden Party and Other Stories opens with At the Bay about wealthy families passing an idyllic and idle summer day in their holiday colony.
The short story collections The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (1923) and Something Childish (1924) as well as a volume of Poems (1923) and a collection of her book reviews titled Novels and Novelists (1930) were published posthumously by her second husband, John Middleton Murry. Katherine Mansfield died from extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Fontainebleau, France, in January 1923. After having published only in journals for several years, she put together a collection titled Bliss and Other Stories which came out in 1920 and which was followed by another collection, The Garden Party and Other Stories, in 1922. In 1911 the author brought out her first short story collection In a German Pension. Already two years later she moved back to London where she led a turbulent bohemian life and became friends with D. Already as a teenager she wrote for a high school magazine, but it was only in 1906, upon her return to New Zealand after three years at Queen’s College in London, that she began to write and publish short stories. Katherine Mansfield, in full Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in October 1888.
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