Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. attitudes & change
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. friendship & greatness
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. change
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 thoughts from John Millington Synge
3 thoughts from John Millington Synge
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 other quotes from William Butler Yeats
28 other quotes from William Butler Yeats
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 wisdom & wit from Dave Barry
27 wisdom & wit from Dave Barry
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill