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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Poet
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
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Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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