Question

What did Road say about another girl's presence in the garden

Answer 1

Answer:

The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield

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1. Biographical notes

1.1. Significant dates

Katherine Mansfield was born as Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand on October 14,18881 as the daughter of the banker Harold Mansfield, one of the wealthiest men in the country. Among various renowned schools in New Zealand she attended Queen’s College in London from 1903 to 1906.2

After spending two discontented years with her family enforced by her father she turned her back on New Zealand for good in 1908.3; 4

Mansfield left her first husband John Browden one day after their wedding, was impregnated by another man, yet lost the baby and finally married the literature critic John Middleton Murry on the 3rd of May, 1918.5; 6

After an extended separation she met her brother Leshe just some months before he died in October 1915 in World War I.7

The following years Mansfield spent in various European countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Southern France in order to recuperate from pneumonia, but finally succumbed to her disease in Avon, France on January 9, 1923 at the age of 34.8