![]() ![]() Part of the gardens at the back of the Hotel Bellvue, Sierre Despite relapses and constant fatigue, the next seven months were the most productive of her life. She found that her soul was at peace in this place she could begin again to write. ![]() At night, the clear moonshine would stream in through the window. During the daytime, the birds came and perched on her balcony and took breadcrumbs. Katherine wanted to occupy the top storey so that she could see over the treetops, down across the valley and look at the views of the mountains all around. It was comfortably furnished and arranged on three storeys. Jennifer Walker, in Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey, describes the setting: Here she wrote a suite of stories, republished as The Montana Stories, which have assured her posterity. Nestled in a forest of pine trees, it was where the writer had her last sustained period of creativity, during the summer and autumn of 1921. ![]() The English doctor who attended Mansfield in Montana suggested that she rent the Chalet des Sapins, belonging to his mother. ![]()
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