Katherine Mansfield short stories - A cup of tea

Title

Katherine Mansfield short stories - A cup of tea

Genre

Fiction

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:19:21

Description

Reading of A Cup of Tea, a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. The story follows society lady Rosemary Fell who meets a poor girl named Miss Smith and invites her to tea. Rosemary’s husband Philip does not approve, but remarks that the pauper is pretty. After giving the girl money and seeing her off, Rosemary gets dressed up and asks her husband if she can buy an expensive box she saw that morning, while actually wishing he would tell her she was pretty too. Female reader not identified (poss. Jane Lapotaire).

Contributors

Katherine Mansfield; Jane Lapotaire?

Keywords

Social systems; Fiction; Short stories; Social class; Class differentiation; Class consciousness

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