A cup of Tea
A cup of Tea by Kathetine Mansfield Introduction : Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) is one of the most highly regarded short story writers of the 20th century. A contemporary of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence, she played her part in shaping modernism by experimenting with style, subject matter and theme in a body of work that re-defined the genre. As well as short stories she also wrote letters, reviews and journals in a prolific career which was cut short by her untimely death at the age of 34. She was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand, the third child of Harold Beauchamp, a prosperous businessman and banker, and Anne Burnell (Annie) Dyer. Her comfortable childhood did little to prepare her for her later experiences of poverty, but provided rich material for her stories. A Cup of Tea is a short story written by New Zealand’s prominent short fiction writer and poet Katheri...