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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 1,700,057 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Katherine Mansfield is the 982nd most popular writer (down from 964th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Writer.

Katherine Mansfield is most famous for her short stories.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Katherine Mansfield ranks 982 out of 5,755. Before her are Persius, Prudentius, William Gibson, Lucius Accius, Martha Gellhorn, and Marguerite Porete. After her are John William Polidori, Henri Troyat, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Hunter S. Thompson, and Saint Gall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Katherine Mansfield ranks 43. Before her are Carin Göring, Ossip Zadkine, Richard E. Byrd, Ernst Kretschmer, Georges Bernanos, and Oskar Schlemmer. After her are Ernst Heinkel, Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Max Steiner, W. O. Bentley, and John Foster Dulles. Among people deceased in 1923, Katherine Mansfield ranks 21. Before her are Pierre Loti, Julius Martov, James Dewar, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, and Princess Louise of Prussia. After her are Milena Vukotić, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Edward Emerson Barnard, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Raymond Radiguet, and Edith Södergran.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield ranks 8 out of 248. Before her are Edmund Hillary (1919), Russell Crowe (1964), Maurice Wilkins (1916), Bruce McLaren (1937), Peter Jackson (1961), and Denny Hulme (1936). After her are Burt Munro (1899), Wallace Fard Muhammad (1893), Jane Campion (1954), Martin Campbell (1943), John Money (1921), and Kiri Te Kanawa (1944).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

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

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