She lives near Jardin Publiques in French town. Katherine Mansfield’s Miss Brill is a short story of a lonesome and an unmarried aged woman. Miss.Brill in the story depicts such issues of women as she is also a spinster. Spinsters, in particular, were considered useless members of society. This story was written in a period where women’s social importance was limited to marrying and bearing children. People were more inclined towards the wrong concept of progress such as drinking, extravagant dressing, dancing and partying. The mayhem created by the war in the French regarding progress and industrialization. This story highlights the glimpses of the aftermath of the First World War. Later on, it was reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. At first, it was published in Athenaeum on 26th November 1920. The short story name, Miss Brill is written by her. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is New Zealand’s famous short fiction writer and a poet. A Girl wearing an Ermine toque and a Gentleman in grey.
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