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Mansfield

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Mans·field  (mnzfld)
1. A municipal borough of central England north of Nottingham. It is an industrial center in a coal-mining region. Population: 69,900.
2. A city of north-central Ohio west-southwest of Akron. It is a manufacturing center. Population: 50,200.
Mansfield, Katherine 1888-1923.
New Zealand-born British writer known for her short stories. Her collections include Bliss (1920) and The Dove's Nest (1923).
Mansfield, Mount
The highest peak, 1,339.9 m (4,393 ft), of the Green Mountains in north-central Vermont. It is a winter sports area.
Mansfield [ˈmænsˌfiːld]
n
(Placename) a town in central England, in W Nottinghamshire: former coal-mining and cotton-textiles industries. Pop.: 71 858 (1991)
Mansfield2
n
(Biographies / Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923) F, Britishnational of birth: New Zealand, WRITING: short-story writer) Katherine, real name Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp. 1888- 1923, British writer, born in New Zealand, noted for her short stories, such as those in Bliss (1920) and The Garden Party (1922)
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Noun1.Mansfield - New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923)
Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
2.Mansfield - a town in north central Ohio
Buckeye State, OH, Ohio - a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region


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Soon afterwards there came another, and another, and then the first returned again, and so, by little and little, their tale was this:-- That the mob gathering round Lord Mansfield's house, had called on those within to open the door, and receiving no reply (for Lord and Lady Mansfield were at that moment escaping by the backway), forced an entrance according to their usual custom.
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About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
Humphry Ward's new book to Shaw's latest play, through the future of the drama to reminiscences of Mansfield.
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