Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington on 14 October 1888. She died of tuberculosis at age 34, after writing a series of short stories that would later be seen as a major advance in the medium. This Spotlight collection is based on some of the screen images Mansfield has inspired. A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield provides an overview of her life, while French-shot feature Leave All Fair dramatises the question of how Mansfield's writings were handled after her death. Award-winning TV movie Bliss is a portrait of the artist as a young woman. The Garden Party is inspired by her 1922 story.