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- Mansfield's "Bliss," written in 1918, explores a woman's battle with dissatisfaction and alienation. Bertha, a young married woman and new mother, lives with her successful husband and has a nurse to help with her baby. A lively and joyous dinner party, offering opportunities for social connection and imagination, ultimately deepens Bertha's sense of isolation when it ends, leaving her in a relatively empty home.
- Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" (1929) delves into a dying woman's final reflections. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, Granny Weatherall's internal monologue is significant for both what it reveals and what it leaves unsaid.
- A more personal biography of Katherine Mansfield is presented by LM (Ida Constance Baker) in her 1971 memoir, Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM. LM, who was Mansfield's close friend and assistant, first published the book in 1971 through Michael Joseph Ltd., with a reprint by Virago Press in 1985.
- Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall," first published in 1917, employs a stream-of-consciousness narrative similar to "Miss Brill." In this story, a woman reflects on a mark on the wall, allowing her mind to wander through various subjects.
- James Joyce's "Araby," first published in the 1914 collection Dubliners, depicts a young narrator's harsh realization that the romantic and religious world he had envisioned is a naive and inaccurate perception of reality.
- Heather Murray's Double Lives: Women in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield offers a feminist analysis of Mansfield's work. This interpretation was published in 1990 by the University of Otago Press.
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