![]() ![]() ![]() It is a mark of their quality and insight that the work is still so relevant and easy to identify with, even though the superficial outlines of the world they depict are now long gone. The stories in this anthology, which range from among her first and last to be published, focus almost entirely on women and their experiences in a world defined by an entrenched patriarchal culture. You’ll have to go on I ain’t got nothing!” – from The Woman at the Storeīorn Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, the author moved to the UK but then travelled back, while also having extended stays on the Continent, partly to deal with her tuberculosis. I offer this review for Patti Abbott’s Friday’s Forgotten Books meme over at her fab Pattinase blog. Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) spent as much of her brief life there as she did in Europe and her stories reflect this divide. ![]() Here is a brief review for a title that might seem like an unexpected choice for a blog mostly dedicated to crime and mystery fiction, but …Ī good mate of mine gave me this book as a present in advance of my trip to New Zealand last month and so it followed me through Queenstown, Lakes Wanaka and Wakatipu and Milford Sound, all amazing places. ![]()
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