The Katherine Mansfield Birthplace is the childhood home of one of the world's best-known short story writers and New Zealand's most famous author.

Here you can enjoy a virtual visit to this historic family home and garden, as well as discover the life and work of the writer herself.

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Next School Holiday Creative Writing Workshops

11 and 12 July 2012

for Intermediate level students, 10 - 12 years old.

Workshop 1: 9.30 - 12 noon.

Workshop 2 (repeat) 1.30 - 4.00pm

See Calendar for details.

The 2012 KMB public lecture programme.

MANSFIELD'S WELLINGTON WORLD:

THE COLONIAL CONTEXT 1888-1908

... and here there is really no scope for development - no intellectual society - no hope of finding any.                                                         

KM to Vera Beauchamp 1908

I am ashamed of young New Zealand, but what is to be done. ... They want a purifying influence - a mad wave of pre-Raphaelitism, of super-aestheticism, should intoxicate the country.                                       

KM to Vera Beauchamp 1908

See calendar for details.