The Katherine Mansfield Special Collection

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on the development of the short story form.

Amy Soakes is an Australian voice actor with over twenty years of experience both in performing and production. She has produced over eight hundred video segments and voiced over a thousand television shows, corporate videos, training programs, and commercials. An expert in utilizing accents, she has been narrating audiobooks for more than four years.

Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher, and audiobook narrator from Melbourne, Australia.

Until recently, Naomi Barton traveled the world as an International School Drama teacher with her husband and two daughters. This enabled her to collect many different stories, accents, and adventures. As well as listening to audio, she loves to groom her Ragdoll cats, play with watercolour paints, and support her teenage daughters to be the most amazing young women they can be. Her interpretive skills combined with her passion for voice work is just part of what she brings to audiobook narration.

Susannah Fullerton, OAM FRS, has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for over twenty-five years. She is Patron of the Kipling Society of Australia, a founding member of the NSW Dickens Society, and of the Australian Bronte Association. Susannah is Sydney’s best-known lecturer on classic novels. She lectures regularly at the Art Gallery of NSW, at the State Library of NSW, at conferences, schools, and libraries around Australia and overseas.

Lyndal Curran Doolan is an Australian radio host and audiobook narrator.