She discusses her three lodgers, who she overhears mockingly calling her "the scarecrow". It was first published posthumously in The Nation and Atheneum on 21 April 1923, and later appeared in The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (1923). She gives him some anthropomorphic characteristics, describing his personality and his habits, and the companionship he provided her with. The Canary (short story) ' The Canary ' is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. She discusses her pet canary who has died at an unspecified time in the past. The story is told in the first person by a lonely woman. It was the last short story she ever completed. Chris Power explores the writing of Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death with Claire Harman, Lucy Caldwell and Dr Chris Mourant. She finished the story on 7 July 1922, when she and her husband John Middleton Murry were living at a hotel in Randogne (now part of Crans-Montana), Switzerland, from 4 June to 16 August 1922. Mansfield began writing the story at the Victoria Palace Hotel in Paris in 1922, where a woman who lived opposite the hotel kept canaries in a cage. " The Canary" is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923: Title: The Garden Party, and Other Stories Contents: At the bay - The garden party - The daughters of the late colonel - Mr and Mrs Dove - The young girl - Life of Ma Parker - Marriage a la mode - The voyage - Miss Brill - Her first ball - The singing lesson - The stranger - Bank holiday - An ideal.
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