Chesney Wold

Chesney Wold Chesney Wold is the setting for Katherine Mansfield's most universally read story, The Doll’s House.

Katherine Mansfield lived here (Tinakori Road) ... until 1893, when the family left “...that dark little cubby hole...” as she remembered her birthplace, to live in the country at Chesney Wold, in what is now the Wellington suburb of Karori. This is ... where the happiest years of her childhood were spent. The move and subsequent events are described in the story Prelude. This new home and the lo

cal primary school are the settings for her most universally read story The Doll’s House. Excerpt taken with permission from www.katherinemansfield.com

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372 Karori Road, Karori
Wellington
6012

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