Katherine Mansfield
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Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.
Mansfield in 1914
Katherine Mansfield's birthplace, Thorndon, New Zealand
Mansfield in 1912
Maata Mahupuku
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Maata Mahupuku, also known as Martha Grace and Martha Asher, was the muse and lover of short-story writer Katherine Mansfield. Of Māori ancestry, descended from a New Zealand tribal leader, she identi
Katherine Mansfield
…attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under…
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Martha Grace aka Maata Mahupuku in a school photo in 1901