In a German Pension: Sharp Sketches of a German Spa
Katherine Mansfield
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Sketches of a Bavarian spa hotel and the Germans taking the cure in it, written by a New Zealander of twenty-two who was there to have a child nobody was to know about. Mansfield later refused to reprint the book, calling it immature; it is savagely funny. This edition is bound with 59 plates of painting from 1841 to 1920, among them works by Adolph von Menzel, Wilhelm Leibl and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.
Sketches of a Bavarian spa hotel and the Germans taking the cure in it, written by a New Zealander of twenty-two who was there to have a child nobody was to know about. Mansfield later refused to reprint the book, calling it immature; it is savagely funny. This edition is bound with 59 plates of ...
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a New Zealand-born writer who settled in England at nineteen. She reshaped the English short story under the influence of Chekhov, quarrelled and reconciled with Virginia Woolf, and died of tuberculosis at thirty-four. Her works include In a German Pension, Bliss, The Garden Party, and The Doves' Nest.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a New Zealand-born writer who settled in England at nineteen. She reshaped the English short story under the influence of Chekhov, quarrelled and reconciled with Virginia Woolf, and died of tuberculosis at thirty-four. Her works include In a German Pension, Bli...
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