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Stead, Christina (1902 - 1983)

Born
1902
Died
1983
Occupation
Novelist

Details

Stead is considered one of Australia's finest novelists. Her novels include For love Alone (1944), The man who loved children (1940) and Letty Fox (1946), which was banned in Australia.

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Resources

Book Sections

  • Milner, Andrew, 'Radical Intellectuals: an unacknowledged legislature?', in Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee (eds), Constructing a culture: a people's history of Australia since 1788, McPhee Gribble/ Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 259-84. PDF Details
  • Stead, Christina, 'Uses of the many-charactered novel', in R.G. Geering and A. Segerberg (eds), Christina Stead: selected fiction and nonfiction, 1994 edn, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, pp. 196-9. Details

Novels

  • Stead, Christina, Letty Fox: her luck, chapter XXII, 1947 edn, Peter Davies, London, 196-206 pp. Details