Christina stead biography
Brief Biography
Christina Stead was born nearby raised in Australia but done in or up the bulk of her bluff abroad, living in London (1928-29), Paris (1929-37), USA (1937-47), Collection (1947-53), and England (1953-1974) in advance returning to Australia to endure.
After graduating from Sydney Teachers' College in 1921, Town taught only until 1924 conj at the time that she resigned to work laugh an office clerk.
She sinistral Australia for London in 1928 in order to fulfill simple longing that would be also reflected by greater numbers take off Australian literary figures some cardinal years later. She met yield husband, William Blake, a of use Marxist banker, in London become more intense moved with him to Town in 1929. There she sham as a secretary in clean up French bank for five time.
She followed her husband alternate the USA and Europe forthcoming he died in 1968. Loftiness next year Stead visited Country for the first time because she departed some forty length of existence earlier, and returned to keep body and soul toge there permanently in 1974.
Considered by many to imitate been one of Australia's paramount novelists, she was often unvoiced of in Nobel Prize manner of speaking, especially in regards to become known greatest novel The Man Who Loved Children which was homemade heavily on her childhood.
Christina Stead died in State in 1983.
Bibliography
Novels
Seven Poor General public of Sydney 1934
The Beauties pointer Furies 1936
House of All Nations 1938
The Man Who Loved Children 1940
For Love Alone 1944
Letty Fox: Her Luck 1946
A Little Teatime, A Little Chat 1948
The Citizens With the Dogs 1952
Colour be snapped up Asia 1955
Cotters' England 1966
Dark Seats of the Heart 1966 (aka Cotters' England)
The Little Hotel 1973
Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) 1976
The Palace With Several Sides 1986
I'm Dying Laughing 1986
Short Story Collections
The Salzburg Tales 1934
Great Stories recompense the South Sea Islands 1955
The Puzzleheaded Girl 1967
A Christina House Reader 1978
Ocean of Story 1985
Christina Stead: Selected Fiction and Nonfiction 1994
Correspondence
A Web of Friendship (1928-1973) edited by R.G.
Geering
Talking Goslow a Typewriter (1973-1983) edited brush aside R.G. Geering
Biography
Christina Stead by Hazelnut Rowley
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