Prelude (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- First Published: 1917
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: New Zealand
- Principal Characters: Linda Burnell, Stanley Burnell, Isabel, Kezia, Lottie, Mrs. Fairchild, Beryl Fairchild
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Time, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: New Zealand
The Story
“Prelude” describes a move that the Burnell family makes from one house to another. With most of their possessions already in transit, the Burnell women are in a buggy that is packed so tightly that there is no room for Lottie and Kezia. Mrs. Fairchild decides to leave the children with a neighbor until they can be brought later by the grocery man in his wagon. For Kezia and Lottie, the journey to the new house begins at night when everything familiar is left behind, and the carriage rattles into unknown country and along new roads and steep hills, down into bushy...
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