“The only writing I have ever been jealous of.” –Virginia Woolf
“By the time of her death in 1923, at age 34, she was being acclaimed as one of the few truly outstanding short-story writers in English, and with minor fluctuations her reputation has held firm ever since.” —The New York Times
“A courageous, reckless character–by turns precociously sensual, cynical, and childish . . . There are stories of hers that last, because they have her sting, delicacy, and wit.” –V.S. Pritchett, The New Yorker
“[Mansfield has brought] her inventions right over the threshold of art. They are extraordinarily solid; they have lived so long in her mind that she knows all about them and can ransack them for the difficult, rare, essential points.” –Rebecca West
