On this day in 1923 Katherine Mansfield died of tuberculosis. She was just thirty-four, and her most famous collection, The Garden Party and Other Stories, had just come out the previous year. Literary historians regard 1922 as "the annus mirabilis of modern literature," and most list The Garden Party among the other ground-breaking books of that year -- Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses ... FULL STORY »
