Editing Katherine Mansfield (section)

===Return to London===
After having returned to London in 1908, Mansfield quickly fell into a [[bohemianism|bohemian]] way of life. She published one story and one poem during her first 15 months there.<ref name=Writing/> Mansfield sought out the Trowell family for companionship, and while Arnold was involved with another woman, Mansfield embarked on a passionate affair with his brother Garnet.<ref name=NZ/> By early 1909, she had become pregnant by Garnet, but Trowell's parents disapproved of the relationship, and the two broke up. She then hastily entered into a marriage with George Bowden, a teacher of singing 11 years her senior;<ref name=Tele>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/04/07/bokatherine.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518180105/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2007%2F04%2F07%2Fbokatherine.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 May 2007 |title=So many afterlives from one short life |first=Ali |last=Smith |author-link=Ali Smith|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=7 April 2007 |access-date=13 October 2008 }}</ref> they were married on 2 March, but she left him the same evening before the marriage could be consummated.<ref name=NZ/>

After Mansfield had a brief reunion with Garnet, Mansfield's mother Annie Beauchamp arrived in 1909. She blamed the breakdown of the marriage to Bowden on a lesbian relationship between Mansfield and Baker, and she quickly had her daughter dispatched to the spa town of [[Bad Wörishofen]] in Bavaria, where Mansfield miscarried. It is not known whether her mother knew of this miscarriage when she left shortly after arriving in Germany, but she cut Mansfield out of her will.<ref name=NZ/>

Mansfield's time in Bavaria had a significant effect on her literary outlook. In particular, she was introduced to the works of [[Anton Chekhov]]. Some biographers accuse her of plagiarizing Chekhov with one of her early short stories.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wilson |first=A.N. |author-link=A. N. Wilson |title=Sincerely, Katherine Mansfield |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3560098/Sincerely-Katherine-Mansfield.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3560098/Sincerely-Katherine-Mansfield.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Telegraph |date=September 8, 2008 |access-date=January 8, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She returned to London in January 1910. She then published more than a dozen articles in [[Alfred Richard Orage]]'s socialist magazine ''[[The New Age]]'' and became a friend and lover of [[Beatrice Hastings]], who lived with Orage.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article692912.ece|title=As mad and bad as it gets|first=Frank|last=Whitford|newspaper=The Sunday Times|date=30 July 2006|archive-date=16 June 2011|access-date=27 September 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110616100656/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article692912.ece|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her experiences in Germany formed the foundation of her first published collection ''[[In a German Pension]]'' (1911), which she later described as "immature".<ref name="NZ" /><ref name=Writing/>