Katherine Mansfield Short Stories

Human interest

In The Garden Party, Mansfield explores class consciousness, sensitivity and the co-existence of life and death. In The Singing Lesson, a young music teacher experiences a cascade of emotions in the space of a few hours. Feminism, vanity and materialism are the themes of A Cup of Tea. Dossiers:

Music: An expression of feelings, New Zealand, Edwardian England, The 1920s