She used her memories in her writing from the beginning, people, the places, even the colloquial speech of the country form the fabric of much of her best work. Nevertheless, Mansfield was a New Zealand writer - she could not have written as she did had she not gone to live in England and France, but she could not have done her best work if she had not had firm roots in her native land. She was associated with the brilliant group of writers who made the London of the period the centre of the literary world. Katherine Mansfield was part of a "new dawn" in English literature with T. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
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