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Katherine Mansfield was New Zealand's most famous writer. Her home, a small Italianate villa in Thorndon, is considered to be of outstanding cultural value and was declared a country’s historic heritage. Katherine Mansfield wrote short stories, poetry, journals, letters, and reviews and lived her life to the fullest until her death in 1923 at the age of 34. Some of her short stories were A Birthday, Prelude, The Aloe, and The Doll’s House. She described her house as “horrid little piggy house” and “dark little cubby hole.” The house was restored to its original look by the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society in 1980 and the visitors can see some of her parent’s and her personal possessions. The garden that she loved so much has been replanted with heritage plants and flowers that grew in it during the family’s time.

Katherine Mansfield Birthplace, 25 Tinakori Rd, Thorndon, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Phone: +64-44-73-72-68

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