PHOTO: Katherine Mansfield’s family spent several summers at ‘The Glen’ in Eastbourne when she was a child. Source: Eastbourne Historical Society
There are calls for the Wellington holiday home of revolutionary writer Katherine Mansfield to become a writers retreat.
More than a century old, The Glen on Muritai Road in Eastbourne was rented by Mansfield’s parents for several summers when she was a child.
It’s on the market, with tenders closing on Tuesday.
“We all dream as writers that there might be another writers residency in New Zealand,” self-proclaimed “late-life” Mansfield devotee and local writer Maggie Rainey-Smith said.
“Some philanthropist with a love of literature might buy it… restore it… I mean there’d be so many volunteers willing to administer it and run it for the person,” she said.
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