Maata Mahupuku, also known as Martha Grace and Martha Asher (10 April 1890 – 15 January 1952), was the muse and lover of short-story writer Katherine Mansfield. Of Māori ancestry, descended from a New Zealand tribal leader, she identified with the Ngati Kahungunuiwi.
Mahupuku was the granddaughter of a Maori chief, Wiremu Mahupuku.[1] She was born in Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand on 10 April 1890. Her father, Richard William Mahupuku, farmed sheep. He died when she was young and her mother, Emily Sexton, married another sheep farmer, Nathaniel Grace. She became known as Martha Grace.[2]
Martha Grace aka Maata Mahupuku in a school photo in 1901
She is best remembered for her relationship with the writer Katherine Mansfield, who was two years older than her,[1] initially while they were both at school in Wellington and then later in London and by correspondence.[2]
Mahupuku inherited substantial land and despite her lawyer embezzling some of her funds she was a rich woman.[2] Her first husband was George McGregor, the son of well-known Wanganui residents George McGregor and Pura Te Mānihera.[3] She later married a second time, and was known at her death as Martha Asher.[4]
Mansfield started a novel about her which Mahupuku claimed to have a full text of, but after Mansfield's death only a chapter and a plan were found.[2]
Referencesedit
^ abKatherine Mansfield; Gillian Boddy (1996). Katherine Mansfield: A "Do You Remember" Life: Four Stories. Victoria University Press. p. 19. ISBN978-0-86473-297-2.
Lawlor, P. (1946). The mystery of Maata: A Katherine Mansfield novel. Wellington, N.Z: The Beltane Book Bureau. Re-published in 1977.
January 01, 1970
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