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Stead, Christina (1902 - 1983)

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Born
1902
Died
1983
Occupation
Novelist

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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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  • Milner, Andrew, 'Radical Intellectuals: an unacknowledged legislature?', in Verity Bergman and Jenny Lee (eds), Constructing a culture: a people's history of Australia since 1788, McPhee Gribble/ Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 259-84. [ | 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... ]