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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781804472118
Paperback • 128pp • £9.99
129 mm x 198 mm
24/12/26
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The Aloe

And Prelude

Katherine Mansfield

ISBN: 9781804472118
Paperback • 128pp
Published 24 December 2026

£9.99

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Jumping into the midst of a journey, in Prelude we find the Burnell family in a cart, removing their lives from town to a house in the Wellington countryside. Isolated but enduring, the family become rooted in the estate, caught between private passions and domestic mores, much like the aloe in the garden, which pierces these pages again and again.

United here are both Prelude, fêted by Virginia Woolf and published by her Hogarth Press, and the longer piece, The Aloe, which it inspired, leaving the reader to ponder on what lies between.

About the author

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923), known as Katherine Mansfield, was a New Zealand writer and literary critic, and an important figure in the Modernist movement. Although she wrote poetry as well, today she is best known for her short stories – and perhaps best of all ‘The Garden Party’. Mansfield’s work gave deep and evocative depictions of New Zealand identity; and in latter years she has been claimed as a Queer icon as many of her tales are widely read as portraying same-sex relationships.

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