"Here you are, my boy. Buy yourself something," said Edward softly, laying the sixpence on Dicky's pillow.
I read The Garden Party and Sixpence. Its author is Katherine Mansfield Beaumont. She was born on October 14th 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand. She was the daughter of a middle class colonial family. The book was written in the period after Mansfield's brother's death in 1915 when the author wrote a number of stories set in her native New Zealand at the turn of the century.
The story of The Garden Party is about the Sheridan's large house and garden that is clearly based on her family's opulent home at 75 Tinakori Road in Wellington, where she lived from 1898 to 1903. As the Sheridans prepare for the garden party, Laura, their teenage daughter learns that a neighbouring workman has died. The news distributes and she her and she feels the party should be canceled as a sign of respect. Also, the story of Sixpence tells the story of how the Bendall family's easygoing and understanding attitude to their lively son Dicky is suddenly overturned when a visitor describes her own much more authoritarian method of bringing up her children.
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