CZM Book Club: A Cup of Tea, by Katherine Mansfield

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History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Margaret reads you a story about class and patriarchy but don't worry it's not as pedantic as that makes it sound.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	Cool Zone Media.
0:11.2	Book club, book club, book club, book club, book club.
0:15.2	Hello, welcome to Cool Zone Media Book Club.
0:17.9	The only podcast, the only book club, where you don't have to do the reading
0:21.7	because I do it for you. I'm your host, Margaret Kilroy, and every week I bring you stories,
0:27.8	stories that I think you might enjoy or that tell us something about the world or the history
0:34.3	of this stuff, I don't know, the stories that I like.
0:39.8	And this week I have, this is going to be surprising to you.
0:44.1	I have a story that I like.
0:46.5	It is called A Cup of Tea by Catherine Mansfield.
0:51.7	And if you're unfamiliar with Catherine Mansfield, some folks, although in this case,
0:56.7	the people who try and preserve her legacy, refer to her as basically transforming the way that
1:03.4	short stories are written in the English language. And I think there's some truth to that. She was
1:09.8	absolutely a prolific short story writer.
1:11.9	She wrote kind of the turn of the century.
1:14.4	She died young at 34 of tuberculosis.
1:17.4	That'll surprise nobody.
1:18.9	And she was bisexual.
1:21.5	And she, I don't know, she had a really interesting life.
1:25.5	Like at one point, she married a guy and then left him that night.
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