On 8th August 1918, Katherine Mansfield's mother, Annie Burnell Beauchamp, passed away in Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of fifty-four. Mansfield, who months earlier had been diagnosed with the pulmonary tuberculosis that would eventually take her life, was devastated by he…
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