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Christina Stead
A diverse assortment of guests seeks solace at a cosmopolitan Swiss hotel. Stead highlights the changing fortunes of postwar Europe.
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Set in Paris between the wars. A love triangle, against this backdrop of political upheaval, that highlights women’s growing independence.
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Hazel Rowley
This biography is of Christina Stead, born in Australia in 1902, and who sailed to England at age twenty-six, and not returning to Australia until she was 72. This intellectually…
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Surrounded by a family notable for its size, eccentricity and marital irregularities, Letty grows up with one aim - marriage. She learns that social survival depends on winning and keeping…
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Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, ‘For Love Alone’ is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of…
Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife, he a fully blown narcissist and she spoiled and prone to fits of despair. Christina Stead’s masterpiece about family life…
Nellie, Tom and Peggie Cotter want the world to change and the post-World War northern England they find themselves in gives them plenty of reason to act. However, they find…
Teresa Petersen
This work seeeks to unravel an enigma presented by Christina stead in her fiction. Overtly Stead posits a heterosexual norm as the paradigm par excellence. Petersen argues that it is…
Michael Ackland
Christina Stead (1902-1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterizations. In this book, author Michael Ackland argues that the single most…
Fiona Morrison
This is the first critical study to focus on Stead’s time in America and its influence on her writing.
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THIS VOLUME BRINGS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME MOST OF THE SHORT PROSE WRITINGS BY CHRISTINA STEAD, WHICH APPEARED IN VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS DURING HER LIFETIME, ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIAL PUBLISHED…
The second volume of Christina Stead’s letters, covering the period 1973 to just before her death in 1983. From just before her return to Australia after a long period of…
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The first volume of Christina Stead’s letters, this book covers the period between 1928 to 1973, encompassing her first years away from Australia, her meeting of and marriage to William…
Originally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead’s first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s…
The Man Who Loved Children is Christina Stead’s masterpiece about family life. Set in Washington during the 1930s, Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife. Their tempestuous…
I am not a born writer, but I must say that when I have actually launched myself I get the profoundest and most passionate satisfaction from writing.‘-Christina Stead A Web…
Letty Fox tells her story as a self-styled woman in New York’s world of passion, love and sexual bargaining. As a bright, uninhibited daughter of a middle class couple who…
Contains a series of interlinked stories and fables.
Kate Macomber Stern
Christina Stead’s Heroine focuses on The Man Who Loved Children and For Love Alone, often considered to be Stead’s best works and her only novels in which the protagonists are…
Lucy Ferriss
Celebrated by writers including Jonathan Franzen, who said that"[t]his crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century," The Man Who Loved Children is…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Louise Yelin
Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the post-colonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to the 20th…
Letty Fox talks us through her search for marital bliss in 1930s New York and London.
Four interlinked novellas. Honor Lawrence, like many of Stead’s vivid characters, highlights women’s growing independence through her refusal to conform.
Robert Grant is a womanizing New York businessman, whose shady dealings unravel when he meets his match in Barbara Kent.
Australian novelist Christina Stead’s 1940 novel about the dysfunctional Pollitt family.
