Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved to England at age 19, mixed with modernist writers there, lead a very modernist life there, and died relatively young of tuberculosis (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield>Wikipedia</a>).

Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved to England at age 19, mixed with modernist writers there, lead a very modernist life there, and died relatively young of tuberculosis (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield>Wikipedia</a>).