凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德是本世纪初世界文坛上最负盛名的女作家，也是新西兰民族文学真正意义上的创始人。她在小说艺术上取得的杰出成就，归功于她在创作上不因循守旧，锐意创新的艺术实践，是她一生不懈追求思想内容与艺术形式完美结合的结果。曼斯菲尔德生活在19世纪末和20世纪 Katherine Mansfield was the most famous woman writer in the world literary world at the beginning of this century and the true founder of New Zealand national literature. Her outstanding achievements in fictional arts are attributed to her unconventional and creative artistic practice in her creation and the result of her untiring pursuit of the perfect combination of ideological content and artistic form. Mansfield lives in the late 19th and 20th centuries