"Catherine is the best of women writers. The only one who has ever made me jealous. We have something in common that no one else has." Virginia Woolf "Every discerning writer and critic who has read Mansfield's first collection of stories has sensed her unique talent. Her writings show great virtuosity and an uncompromising love of literature." Willa Cather "Everyone who knew Katherine Mansfield in her short life has discovered a more delicate soul than most people: she was like porcelain from the Far East that the ocean waves had washed up on our shores." Pietro Cittati "Mansfield was a feminist at all costs: determined to work and earn her living through writing." Leonard Woolf