Something Childish

{{Short description|1924 collection of short stories Katherine Mansfield}}

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Something Childish and Other Stories is a 1924 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield.{{Cite web |title=Short Stories - Something Childish But Very Natural - WriteWork |url=https://www.writework.com:80/book-guides/short-stories-katherine-mansfield/something-childish-but-very-natural |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=www.writework.com |language=en}} It was published in America as The Little Girl.{{Cite book |last=Mansfield |first=Katherine |url=https://archive.org/details/littlegirl0000kath/page/n9/mode/2up |title=The Little Girl and Other Stories |year=1924 |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf}}

This anthology was published after her death by her husband John Middleton Murry. Murry wrote in his introductory note that most of the stories in this collection were written between In a German Pension (1911) and Bliss and Other Stories (1920) with the exception of six stories – the first four were written before In a German Pension was published, while "Sixpence" and "Poison" were written after Bliss.{{cite book |last1=Mansfield |first1=Katherine |last2=Murry |first2=John Middleton |year=1924 |title=Something Childish and Other Stories |location=London |publisher=Constable & Co. Ltd. |page=IX}}