Chi uscì con Katherine Mansfield?

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. She began school in Karori with her sisters, before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship.

Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality, Christianity, and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, and she died in France aged 34.

Emily Alice Beatrice Haigh, meglio nota con lo pseudonimo di Beatrice Hastings (Londra, 26 gennaio 1879 – Worthing, 30 ottobre 1943) è stata una giornalista, scrittrice e poetessa inglese, celebre per i suoi scritti politici dal carattere femminista radicale (pubblicati principalmente tra il 1907 e il 1920 sulla rivista socialista The New Age).

Tra questi, si ricorda in particolare il manifesto femminista Woman's Worst Enemy: Woman (tradotto in italiano come Il peggior nemico della donna: la donna), uscito in forma di allegato del The New Age nel luglio del 1909. Il manifesto è una critica ironica e avanguardista al ruolo della donna e all'idealizzazione della maternità nella società capitalista inglese di inizio Novecento.