MANSFIELD, Katherine.

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The Garden Party and Other Stories. First edition of the final collection of the author's stories published in her lifetime, rare in fine condition. After Mansfield's death the following year, Virginia Woolf remembered Mansfield for having "the only writing I have ever been jealous of... Probably we had something in common which I shall never find in anyone else" (Diary, vol. 2, p. 227).Although Mansfield herself viewed the title story as "a moderately successful story, and that's all", the collection was widely celebrated (Journal, p. 195). Her husband and editor, John Middleton Murry, comments that "the appearance of The Garden Party finally established her as the most remarkable short-story writer of her generation in England" (Journal, p. xiii).

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