A Translation of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”

Abstract

Katherine Mansfield was born into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888. She went to London to study in Queen’s college and studied there from 1903 to 1906. then she return to Ne Zealand to study the cello for two years. In 1908 she returned to England because she wanted to be a writer rather than a musician, and there she lived the rest of her life. By this time she often went to Germany, Switzerland and France for her recovery from persistent poor health