WRITER

Katherine Mansfield

1888 - 1923

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Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages. Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katherine Mansfield has received more than 1,838,409 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Katherine Mansfield is the 766th most popular writer (up from 980th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Writer.

Katherine Mansfield is most famous for her short stories.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Katherine Mansfield ranks 766 out of 7,302. Before her are Klaus Ebner, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Robert Ludlum, Natalia Ginzburg, Thomas Harris, and Gregory Skovoroda. After her are Neal Cassady, Aelia Eudocia, Masaru Emoto, Gregory of Narek, Antoine Galland, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Katherine Mansfield ranks 37. Before her are Selman Waksman, Friedrich Olbricht, Andrei Tupolev, Anton Makarenko, Inge Lehmann, and Abul Kalam Azad. After her are Georges Bernanos, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ossip Zadkine, Frances Marion, and Josef Albers. Among people deceased in 1923, Katherine Mansfield ranks 18. Before her are Joaquín Sorolla, Pierre Loti, Dietrich Eckart, Julius Martov, Damdin Sükhbaatar, and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. After her are James Dewar, George Hendrik Breitner, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Princess Louise of Prussia, Edward Emerson Barnard, and Milena Vukotić.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield ranks 7 out of 303. Before her are Ernest Rutherford (1871), Edmund Hillary (1919), Russell Crowe (1964), Maurice Wilkins (1916), Bruce McLaren (1937), and Peter Jackson (1961). After her are Denny Hulme (1936), Alan MacDiarmid (1927), Thomas Williams (1930), Helen Clark (1950), Chris Amon (1943), and Burt Munro (1899).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield ranks 1. After her are Richard Curtis (1956), Janet Frame (1924), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Hugh Walpole (1884), Margaret Mahy (1936), Keri Hulme (1947), Anthony McCarten (1961), Ruth Park (1917), and Philippa Boyens (2000).

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