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.
