Now – now I want to write recollections of my own country. Yes, I want to write about my own country till I simply exhaust my store. Not only because it is a ‘secret debt’ that I pay to my country because my brother and I were born there, but also because in my thoughts I range with him over all the remembered places. I am never far away from them. I long to renew them in writing.”
(The Journal of Katherine Mansfield, ed. by J. M. Murry, London 1927)
Katherine Mansfield by Anne Estelle Rice