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The Garden Party Lesson Plan

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Mansfield published many short stories, essays, articles, and poems in various publications during her life. She published three volumes of short stories while she lived: In a German Pension (1911), Bliss & Other Stories (1920), and The Garden Party & Other Stories (1922). She died early in 1923 at the age of thirty-four. Several more collections of her short stories were published after her death, along with a novel, The Aloe. This and many of her other stories were edited by her husband and editorial collaborator before death, John Middleton Murry. In total, Mansfield wrote dozens of short stories.

The Garden Party & Other Stories was the last collection published before her death, and...

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