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Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield

Television (Excerpts) – 2011

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Bliss is a portrait of the artist as a young woman. The award-winning telemovie follows Katherine Mansfield from boredom in Edwardian Wellington to liberation and love affairs in London, where she dares to dream of being a writer. Kate Elliott plays Mansfield as a spirited 19-year-old, hungry for experience. Bliss screened to acclaim in TV One's Sunday Theatre slot in August 2011. Listener reviewer Fiona Rae praised director Fiona Samuel's "excellent" script, and for allowing "her Mansfield to be witty, passionate and outspoken without belabouring the status of women in 1908".

I wouldn't have had the nerve to make all that up.
– Director Fiona Samuel on the colourful events of Katherine Mansfield’s young life, Stuff website, 28 August 2011

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