Katherine Mansfield and Russia

Examines the 'Russian influence' on both Mansfield’s craft as a short story writer and her life choices Katherine Mansfield’s passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters and notebooks. Anton Chekhov was not just one of her most significant literary influences, but also a mythological presence with whom she mentally communicated every day. The emotional bond became even stronger when she discovered that the two of them shared the same deadly disease. But her fasci