'The Garden Party and Other Stories' is a collection of 15 short stories written by the New Zealander, who was lauded by the likes of Virginia Woolf before she died at the age of 34. In addition, Sydney Janet Kaplan provides a reflection on her personal meeting with Christopher Isherwood, a writer heavily influenced by the life and work of Mansfield.If you have not discovered the work of Katherine Mansfield, you're in for a treat and this is the perfect place to start. The collection also includes Mansfield-inspired short fiction, two translations of memorial poems dedicated to Mansfield by Chinese and French contemporaries with accompanying notes, and a recently re-discovered book review by Mansfield. The essays in this volume, by both seasoned and newer Mansfield scholars, work to continue this conversation. Mansfield herself felt some of these stories fell short of her desired effect, though recent scholarship has revealed their greater complexity.
While it contains some of Mansfield’s most sophisticated and well-loved stories, several of the stories in The Garden Party initially appeared in the Sphere, and thus were often dismissed as inferior. Early reviewers of the collection commented on the similarities it shared with her previous collection, Bliss and Other Stories however, while contemporary reviews were mixed, many emphasised the psychological power of her stories, praising how she was able to bring her characters to life in a way simple action could not. The last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield’s place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation.
New scholarship on Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories together with creative work inspired by Mansfield
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