Katherine Mansfield (the pseudonym of Kathleen Beauchamp, 1888-1923) is New Zealand’s most significant and enduringly famous writer. She wrote poetry and reviews, and worked in an editorial capacity for some of London’s most ground-breaking avant-garde literary journals, but most importantly wrote short stories, for which she gained an international reputation. The Mansfield collections include original correspondence, notebooks and journals and other documentation relating to her life and works. As a whole they document the writer’s artistic preoccupations, development, influences and methods. They cover her troubled and complex personal life, friendships and family relationships, and her dealings with society and institutions.