In 1910, Mansfield submitted a lightweight story to Rhythm a new avant-garde magazine.
The piece was rejected by the magazine's editor John Middleton Murry, who requested something darker.
Mansfield responded with a tale of murder and mental illness titled, "The Woman at the Store".
Mansfield was inspired at this time by Fauvism.

Mansfield and Murry began a relationship in 1911 that culminated in their marriage in 1918, although she had left him in 1911 and again in 1913.
The characters Gudrun and Gerald in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love are based on Mansfield and Murry.

The publisher of Rhythm, Charles Granville (sometimes known as Stephen Swift), absconded to Europe in October 1912, and left Murry responsible for the debts the magazine had accumulated.
Mansfield pledged her father's allowance towards the magazine, but it was discontinued, being reorganised as The Blue Review in 1913 and folding after three issues.
Mansfield and Murry were persuaded by their friend Gilbert Cannan to rent a cottage next to his windmill in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1913, in an attempt to alleviate Mansfield's ill health.
In January 1914, the couple moved to Paris, in the hope that a change of setting would make writing easier for both of them.
Mansfield wrote only one story during her time there, "Something Childish But Very Natural", before Murry was recalled to London to declare bankruptcy.

Mansfield had a brief affair with the French writer Francis Carco in 1914.
Her visit to him in Paris in February 1915 is retold in her story "An Indiscreet Journey".
In 1910, Mansfield submitted a lightweight story to Rhythm a new avant-garde magazine. The piece was rejected by the magazine's editor John Middleton Murry, who requested something darker. Mansfield responded with a tale of murder and mental illness titled, "The Woman at the Store". Mansfield was inspired at this time by Fauvism.
Mansfield and Murry began a relationship in 1911 that culminated in their marriage in 1918, although she had left him in 1911 and again in 1913. The characters Gudrun and Gerald in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love are based on Mansfield and Murry.
The publisher of Rhythm, Charles Granville (sometimes known as Stephen Swift), absconded to Europe in October 1912, and left Murry responsible for the debts the magazine had accumulated. Mansfield pledged her father's allowance towards the magazine, but it was discontinued, being reorganised as The Blue Review in 1913 and folding after three issues. Mansfield and Murry were persuaded by their friend Gilbert Cannan to rent a cottage next to his windmill in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1913, in an attempt to alleviate Mansfield's ill health. In January 1914, the couple moved to Paris, in the hope that a change of setting would make writing easier for both of them. Mansfield wrote only one story during her time there, "Something Childish But Very Natural", before Murry was recalled to London to declare bankruptcy.
Mansfield had a brief affair with the French writer Francis Carco in 1914. Her visit to him in Paris in February 1915 is retold in her story "An Indiscreet Journey".
Katherine Mansfield