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A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield

Television (Full Length) – 1986

I want, for one moment, to make our undiscovered country leap into the eyes of the old world. But all must be told with a sense of mystery, a radiance, an afterglow.
– Katherine Mansfield
How many women, in 1908, would have been prepared to leave a wealthy middle class New Zealand family, go 11,000 miles to the other side of the world to live a bohemian life in London because they believed in their ability to create art?
– Biographer Cherry Hankin