pNew scholarship on Katherine Mansfield's iThe Garden Party and Other Storiesi together with creative work inspired by Mansfieldp pp pThe last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, iThe Garden Party and Other Storiesi would solidify Katherine Mansfield's place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation. Early reviewers of the collection commented on the similarities it shared with her previous collection, iBliss and Other Storiesi however, while contemporary reviews were mixed, many emphasised the psychological power of her stories, praising how she was able to bring her characters to life in a way simple action could not. While it contains some of Mansfield's most sophisticated and well-loved stories, several of the stories in iThe Garden Partyi initially appeared in thei Spherei, and thus were often dismissed as inferior. Mansfield herself felt some of these stories fell short of her desired effect, though recent scholarship has revealed the