Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield
Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield
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Miss Brill

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Mark Young

Unabridged: 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/12/2025

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

"Miss Brill" is a short story by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). It was first published in Athenaeum on 26 November 1920, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. Miss Brill is an English teacher living near the Public Gardens in a French town. The narrative follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon, which she spends walking about and sitting in the park.

About Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on subsequent writers in the same genre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse on August 01, 2023

Oh, how fascinating it was! How she enjoyed it! How she loved sitting here, watching it all! It was like a play. It was exactly like a play. Who could believe the sky at the back wasn’t painted? Perhaps worse than becoming invisible when aging is to find oneself becoming risible, out of touch, the la......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on January 11, 2023

This taster of Katherine Mansfield’s prose includes three short stories centred around couples’ relationships and an inescapable sense of rejection and isolation. In all three, Mansfield displays an incredible mastery of narrative technique, chiefly based on a Flaubertian use of free indirect speech......more

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