The Daughters of the Late Colonel
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Textual Commentary: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel.’
In this extract, which is from the first page of Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’, we are introduced to protagonists Josephine and Constantia in the days after their father has died. The extract sets the tone for their worries and the friction in their relationship as they disagree on certain… Continue reading
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Recent English graduate of Loughborough University, passionate about film and literature. On this site, I post my academic essays and related writing.
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