Friday 9 August 2024 to Saturday 9 November 2024
Te Puna Foundation Gallery, (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon
An exhibition exploring Katherine Mansfield’s final year, featuring manuscripts, personal items, and her iconic silk Chinese shawl.
Stories, letters and a silk shawl
This exhibition explores the last year of Katherine Mansfield’s life through original manuscripts, photographs and the personal objects she treasured, including those left to loved ones in her will.
At the centre of the exhibition is her silk Chinese shawl, a massive 2 x 2 metres, which was draped over her coffin during her funeral in Fontainebleau, France, just over one-hundred years ago.
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