Katherine Mansfield

Something Childish But Very Natural is a 1914 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published posthumously in the Adelphi, though it was written in 1914.

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men …