The Katherine Mansfield Special Collection

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on the development of the short story form. 

Susannah Fullerton, OAM FRS, has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for over twenty-five years. She is Patron of the Kipling Society of Australia, a founding member of the NSW Dickens Society, and of the Australian Bronte Association. Susannah is Sydney’s best-known lecturer on classic novels. She lectures regularly at the Art Gallery of NSW, at the State Library of NSW, at conferences, schools, and libraries around Australia and overseas.

Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher, and audiobook narrator from Melbourne, Australia.

Amy Soakes is an Australian voice actor with over twenty years of experience both in performing and production. She has produced over eight hundred video segments and voiced over a thousand television shows, corporate videos, training programs, and commercials. An expert in utilizing accents, she has been narrating audiobooks for more than four years.

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on the development of the short story form.