Timeline Octo Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp is born to Annie Dyer and Harold Beauchamp, residing at 11 Tinakori Rd, Wellington, New Zealand, “a little land with no history.” She will be one of six children. Begins school at Karori village school. Attends Wellington Girls’ High School. Publishes first work in High School Reporter. Transfers to Miss Swainson’s.