So perfect is my love for you that I am, as it were, still, silent to my very soul

A love letter from Katherine Mansfield

Jul 21, 2022

∙ Paid

Katherine Mansfield, pen name of Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp (1888-1923) short story writer born in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

By the time of her death in 1923, Katherine Mansfield had known fellow writer John Middleton Murry for eleven years and been married to him for five—an intense relationship compli…

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