Novels and Novelists Author:Katherine Mansfield 1930. Mansfield is New Zealand's most famous writer. She was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class ch... more »aracters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behavior. Mansfield's family memoirs were collected in Bliss and secured her reputation as a writer. Novels and Novelists contains a chronological arrangement of Mansfield's fiction reviews for The Athenaeum, comprising a body of criticism unique in its kind. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less