I think … I am going to die.'

When Miss Katherine Mansfield, the brilliant novelist, passed away the other day in almost the spring of her promise, it was in a curious little oasis in the historic Forest of Fontainebleau… From 'The Graphic', 10 March 1923

This moving, beautifully written chapter from Kathleen Joness biography 'Katherine Mansfield, The Story-teller' (2010), describes Mansfields last days and death at a chateau near Paris, the centre of a spiritual movement led by the mysterious Russian philosopher-mystic Georges Gurdjieff.

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