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The curious case of the hair in the cabinet

The Turnbull Library has not one, but two locks of hair that grew on the head of this country’s most famous – and perhaps most fetishised – writer. The cult of personality that surrounds Katherine Mansfield is remarkable, and 133 years after her birth, it continues to intensify, the ripples she sent into the world growing and widening and taking on a life of their own.

You could argue it is the stunning fact of her

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