凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德生于新西兰,被誉为100多年来新西兰最有影响的作家之一,是20世纪蜚声文坛的一位短篇小说风格大家。曼斯菲尔德以其独有的细腻和敏感刻画了女性的生存状况和心路历程,塑造了许多令人称道的经典新时代女性形象,对女性解放这个重大的社会问题提供了文学的解救之道。1921年发表的 Born in New Zealand, Catherine Mansfield is known as one of New Zealand’s most influential writers for over 100 years and is a short story style writer in the twentieth century renowned literary world. Mansfield, with its unique delicacy and sensitivity, depict the living condition and the mentality of women and create many well-known women images in the new era of the classic, which provided the literary rescue to this major social issue of women’s liberation. Published in 1921