In A German Pension

by Katherine Mansfield

Overview

In a German Pension is a 1911 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield; her first published collection. The stories were written after her stay in Bad Wörishofen, a German spa town, in 1909, where she was taken by her mother after her disastrous marriage, pregnancy and miscarriage. Some reflect on the habits and demeanour of Germans, and some refer to the exploitation and repression of women by men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783985319312
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	03/09/2022
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	97
File size:	660 KB

About the Author

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, and she died in France aged 34.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	In a German Pension	1
	Germans at Meat	3
	The Baron	8
	The Sister of the Baroness	13
	Frau Fischer	19
	Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding	27
	The Modern Soul	35
	At Lehmann's	46
	The Luft Bad	55
	A Birthday	59
	The Child-Who-Was-Tired	71
	The Advanced Lady	81
	The Swing of the Pendulum	93
	A Blaze	106
	Notes	113
	Biographical note	115