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9 January 1923

La Prieuré, Fontainebleau, Avon

Katherine Mansfield died from a haemorrhage at eleven o'clock on the night of 9 January 1923, soon after the arrival of her husband, John Middleton Murry, for his first visit to the Prieuré. She was buried at the cemetery at Fontainebleau, where her gravestone reads:

     KATHERINE MANSFIELD
              WIFE OF
   JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
            1888 - 1923
     BORN AT WELLINGTON
           NEW ZEALAND
           DIED AT AVON