1. As was Mansfield herself. She was known as quite the female libertine for her time. Traveling around. Sleeping around (with both sexes). Thinking around. Experimenting around.
2. Her first marriage, which lasted effectively only a day, she said was research for a story to see what it felt like. She dressed in black during the wedding.
3. Only three collections of her stories were published during her lifetime.
4. In a German Pension came out in 1911 after her experience of pregnancy and losing the child in Bavaria.
5. As she was dying of TB, she rushed to complete stories for her most influential collection The Garden Party and Other Stories in 1922.
6. No wonder Woolf considered Mansfield cheap and whorish, while Mansfield found the slightly older author a prig. (They did seem to have enjoyed discussing writing with each other though. There is even a book available on their intense literary relationship, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two.
7. From 1912 she was associated with Rhythm, a modernist publication edited by John Middleton Murry who became her second husband in 1918 and her champion after her death.
8. Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family
9. As a part of her treatment in 1922 at an institute, Mansfield had to spend a few hours every day on a platform suspended over a cow manger.
10. Mansfield died of a pulmonary hemorrhage on January 9, 1923, in Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France.
11. Influenced short stories up to this time.
12. She wrote about the people with flesh and blood, not just theoretical entitles.

13.  Te Dove’s Nest and Something Childish were published posthumously.