Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”: Women’s Plight Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker” presents the plight of Ma Parker as a working-class woman at the turn of the century, in terms of her position in the sphere of the family and in the sphere of society. “Life of Ma Parker” is a story of a widowed charwoman. Like Miss Brill, Ma Parker is a very lonely woman, but their equally painful …showed first 75 words of 1491 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1491 total…Women on the Market” (chapter 8). This Sex Which Is Not One. pp. 170-191. Lohafer, Susan. “Why the ‘Life of Ma Parker’ Is Not So Simple: Preclosure in Issue-bound Stories”. Studies in Short Fiction. 33.4 (1996): 475-86. Mansfield, Katherine. “Life of Ma Parker”. The Garden Party and Other Stories. Ed. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 1922. pp. 140-150. (taken from the web-site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmbt/women/mansfield/garden/parker.html) Mansfield, Katherine. “Miss Brill”. pp. 330-336