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On her arrival in London from New Zealand in 1908, Katherine Mansfield seemed the embodiment of the New Woman she had thrown off family and convention in bold pursuit of freedom and art A sombre life but enlivened by some brilliant friends and - at times - farcical marriages The author explores the web of relationships that included DHLawrence and Virginia Woolf who judged Katherine to be her only rival among contemporary women writers