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	Politics and Culture
		Stead chose to keep notes taken from newspapers, history texts and court trials, so that her fiction would be historically accurate and intellectually rigorous.
		Christina Stead struggled all her life to escape the constraints of her own identity in seeking to be published.
		It is vexing that this interest in one dimension of Stead's life (without evidence to sustain the claim) continues to devalue her explicit political analysis of key events in the twentieth century.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=99 (1374 words)

	“A real inferno”: the life of Christina Stead by Brooke Allen
		Christina’s mother, Ellen Butters, died when her daughter was two, and David then married Ada Gibbins, a delicate girl from a faded-genteel background, totally unsuited to the life of poverty and squalor the Stead family eventually descended to.
		Christina Stead’s childhood and youth had been molded by a domineering man, and it is perhaps inevitable that in spite of her definitive break from her father she soon found a man of the same type to mold her future.
		Stead’s books are only political insofar as she saw life itself as inherently political, and relations between human beings as being firmly conjoined with, and functions of, economics and power.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/13/oct94/brooke.htm (4986 words)

	AllRefer.com - Christina Stead (Australian And New Zealand Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Christina Stead, Australian And New Zealand Literature, Biographies
		Stead also wrote novellas, short stories, and essays.
		See Christina Stead: A Biography (1994) by H. Rowley; studies by J. Lidoff (1982), D. Brydon (1987), and S. Sheridan (1988).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Stead-Ch.html (265 words)

	Christina Stead
		Her tracing of what she calls 'Stead's shadow self' from her unhappy childhood through the crucible of her fiction to the final shambles of her later years gives the biography a vigorous and unnerving momentum, reminiscent of Stead's own fiction.
		We follow Stead through her departure from Australia in 1928, her exile in Europe, and her ceaseless wandering: as an MGM screenwriter in the United States, then in miserable obscurity in England during the Fifties and Sixties, scavenging a living from literary scraps, and slumming in hotels or one-room flats."
		"Christina Stead, who is better known to an international reading public than Patrick White, spent much of her life in poverty and died in her native Australia an eccentric old lady, excessively fond of drink, unable to write and subject (in her 70s) to infatuations that bordered on the delusive.
	www.hazelrowley.com /stead.htm (755 words)

	Christina Stead's greatest work of fiction - smh.com.au
		Pender revealed the existence of the letters to a conference of Stead scholars at the University of Surrey, near London on the weekend, which coincided with the 100th anniversary of the author's birth.
		With Abels, Stead debated US policies in the '60s, especially the progress of the fl rights movement, while with McKenney, who was the model for the central figure in Stead's last book, she discusses the use of real people and events as characters and scenes.
		Stead spent her final years in Australia, moving between Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne, probably carrying the box with her.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/02/1030953434557.html (759 words)

	Span number 37 Yorga Wangi: Lever
		Stead manages to write a realism which continually slips away from the rigid models of socialist realism promoted by Marxists in the thirties and forties, and this slipping away may be seen as related to metaphors of female sexuality.
		Stead's further attempts to achieve this balance may be seen in her later novels, several of which have puzzled readers, or remained for years awaiting publication by unenthusiastic publishers.
		Stead's own kind of Marxism (as opposed to the idealistic and programmatic official Marxism of the late forties and early fifties) enables her to make the links between political and economic realities and the bodily experience of her character.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/37/Lever.html (4530 words)

	A revised version on a tainted woman of letters - theage.com.au
		Stead's peers included fellow left-wing literary figures of the '50s and '60s such as Americans Lillian Hellman, Nathanael West and Arthur Miller, and Australians poet Judith Wright and novelist Elizabeth Harrower.
		While most Australian students know Stead for her most famous work, in scholarly circles she has been either ignored or portrayed as a hateful woman who based her characters on people she did not like as a way of getting even.
		With Abels, Stead debated US policies in the 1960s, especially the progress of the fl rights movement, while with McKenney, who was the model for the central figure in Stead's last book, she discusses the use of real people and events as characters and scenes.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/02/1030508165306.html (698 words)

	Southerly: Knowing Christina Stead.@ HighBeam Research
		A chronology is presented on the last year in the life of Australian author Christina Stead, focusing on vignettes, visits with friends and personal anecdotes.
		I once had the chance to tell Christina Stead I loved her, but I couldn't say the words.
		Christina Stead had come to live with me at my home in Glebe early in January 1983.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:57387499&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (176 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: The Beauties and Furies
		Stead weaves her Marxism and her feminism together, so that the economic content has everything to do with the novel's discussion of female beauty and romantic idealism.
		Stead went with Manuel to a meeting of the Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires and he wanted to collaborate with her on a project on the effect on French workers of the introduction of threshing machines in the mid-nineteenth century.
		Stead was often heralded during the 1930s as an exciting new voice; her verbal fluency in The Beauties and Furies was compared, in one review, to that of Joyce.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1511 (1043 words)

	Stead, Christina on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bibliography: See Christina Stead: A Biography (1994) by H. Rowley; studies by J. Lidoff (1982), D. Brydon (1987), and S. Sheridan (1988).
		Feminism and male chauvinism in the writings of Christina Stead (1902-1983).
		Christina stead: the integrity of the writer.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/stead-c1h.asp (360 words)

	Christina Stead Biography / Biography of Christina Stead Biography Biography
		Australian-born novelist Christina Stead (1902-1983) is best remembered as the author of The Man Who Loved Children (1940), a depiction of dysfunctional family life based to a significant extent on her own childhood in suburban Sydney.
		Living the greater part of her life outside Australia, Stead employed a variety of settings in her fiction, including London, Paris, and Washington, D.C., and often used her fiction to highlight such political and economic issues as the oppression of workers and the parallels between paternalistic colonial authority and gender inequality.
		Stead was born in Rockdale, near Sydney, on July 17, 1902, the daughter of David George and Ellen Butters Stead.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-christina-stead/index.html (228 words)

	Christina Stead -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christina Stead (1902 - 1983) was an (The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines) Australian (Someone who writes novels) novelist and (Click link for more info and facts about short-story) short-story writer noted for her (Click link for more info and facts about satirical wit) satirical wit and psychological penetration.
		She was a committed (An advocate of Marxism) Marxist although never a member of the (A political party that actively advocates a communist form of government; in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state) Communist Party.
		A "'A real inferno', the Life of Christina Stead" by Brooke Allen from (Click link for more info and facts about The New Criterion) The New Criterion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christina_stead.htm (308 words)

	Christina the Astonishing -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		One of the wittiest and most learned women of her age, Christina is best remembered for her lavish sponsorship of the arts and her influence on European culture.
		One of the wittiest and most learned women of her time, Christina stunned all of Europe by abdicating, or stepping down from, her throne as the queen of Sweden.
		The Australian novelist Christina Stead is known for her political insights and firmly controlled but highly individual style.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310685?tocId=9310685 (780 words)

	Stead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christina Stead, the 'dark star of Australian literature' set her only English novel, Cotter's England partly in Gateshead (called Bridgehead in the novel).
		At all events, one gets none of the strong sense of place which distinguished Tyneside, nor the warmth and humour of the Geordies; her view of the region is grim and downbeat.
		It appears that the house she stayed in was a tedious walk up the hill from Gateshead station: the Kelly family with the right names lived at 37 South Street (now demolished) opposite the school.
	online.northumbria.ac.uk /faculties/art/humanities/cns/m-stead1.html (179 words)

	Review 3
		Stead was Australian and lived most of her life in Europe and the United States.
		She does a close reading of Stead’s use of the term “transportation” to describe the translation of her Australian childhood material to the American setting of The Man Who Loved Children, noting that “transportation” evokes Australia’s origin as a British penal colony to which convicts were sentenced to be transported.
		Stead was deeply alienated by the cold-war anti-communism of both the United States and Australia.
	www.brynmawr.edu /bmrcl/winter2000/yelinreview.html (1983 words)

	Female Quest in Christina Stead's For Love Alone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christina Stead's works resist simplistic categorization, a circumstance which has attracted some critics and exasperated many others.
		The intertextual perspective sheds light on her progress, as well as on important parts of the literary context in which For Love Alone is embedded.
		The concluding survey of Stead's other novels traces the development of Stead's treatment of female quest within the entire body of her fiction.
	www.coronetbooks.com /books/fema2362.htm (217 words)

	Christina Stead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christina Stead (1902 - 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer noted for her satirical wit and psychological penetration.
		Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead (1985) edited by R. Geering
		A magazine article "'A real inferno', the Life of Christina Stead" by Brooke Allen from The New Criterion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_Stead (300 words)

	A striking, if disconcerting, originality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christina Stead's novels are complex and difficult; they scale and fall artistic peaks and troughs, and are marked by a striking, if disconcerting, originality.
		Stead's novels, on the other hand, were strewn with “manic wind-bagging”, “lack of moral colouring and lack of narrative direction”, were hero-free and had a surfeit of modernistic techniques such as sudden changes in tone and style from realism to dream and fantasy.
		For Stead, the worldly context -- fascism, capitalist corruption and decay, socialist alternatives -- were often mere backdrop to her focus on the individual, the family and the unconscious.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1994/152/152p23.htm (882 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Christina Stead: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this eloquent, richly detailed biography, Christina Stead (1902-1983) emerges as a writer whose bristling, difficult fiction was fueled by a troubled life and touchwood temperament ("Every human being is a sort of monster, if you get to know them.").
		Australia was slow to recognize her talent, and financial and critical support for her work eluded her elsewhere as well until late in life.
		Rowley, an Australian professor, points out that Stead's susceptibility to depression was assuaged by the devotion of her lover, Marxist historian and novelist William Blech.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0805034110 (320 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - hazel rowley
		Christina Stead is such an international figure that I was able to find three different publishers and do three different deals.
		And when I was writing my Christina Stead book, Wright loomed again on the edges of my research because this Australian expatriate writer was in New York with her German-Jewish husband Bill Blake, mixing in Communist literary circles, and Richard Wright used to call on their apartment to discuss politics.
		I did with the Christina Stead book, but that was the tail end of an era when the academy was very different.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum32.html (4078 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: For Love Alone
		Stead left Australia in 1928, whereas Teresa Hawkins, Stead's heroine, arrives in London in 1936.
		Stead focuses, in the first section of the novel, on life for women in 1930s Sydney.
		The novel was eventually published in Australia in 1966 and was instrumental in Stead's renaissance in the 1960s.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5104 (1025 words)

	Third Coast Contests
		Two remarkable novels, Christina Stead's The House of All Nations and Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard, suggest that serious fiction can succeed with this material, although most novelists seem happy to concede the terrain to journalists and talking heads.
		Stead memorably dissects the human follies that link financiers and their clients, as well as the market forces that seem to drive unregulated financial systems toward ever greater excess, and ultimately, chaos.
		But if you can find the time and patience to immerse yourself in Stead’s world and let it wash over you, you won’t be sorry -- and you’ll never look at the “financial industry” the same way again.
	www.wmich.edu /thirdcoast/Book_Reviews/Patau_Moral_Hazard.htm (774 words)

	UWA Press - Christina Stead's Politics of Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blake attributes this to Stead's deep loyalty to the politics of the far left, with its conviction that the material conditions of people's lives make them what they are.
		This study breaks new ground in its concentration on England and the English in Stead's writing, and in its tackling of Stead's work in the context of current postcolonial thinking.
		Christina Stead's Politics of Place is an eminently readable and well-researched addition to criticism on this outstanding Australian writer.
	www.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /titles/index/christina_steads_politics_of_place (167 words)

	Stead G - new and used books
		STEAD, D.G. General Report upon the Fisheries of British Malaya, with recommendations for future development.
		Stead, David G. 1933 Shakespeare Head Press An interesting pocket-sized book on trees in Australia.
		STEAD David G. FISHES OF AUSTRALIA; a Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the Wealth within our Waters.
	www.isbn.pl /A-stead-g (613 words)

	'Scorched earth', Washington and the missing manuscript of Christina Stead's I'm Dying Laughing. - Journal, Magazine, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CHRISTINA Stead was writing her final novel I'm Dying Laughing on and off for nearly thirty years.
		She began work on the book in the 1940s but when she presented the completed manuscript to her publishers in 1966 she was confronted with a barrage of criticism.
		Stead's agent, both her American and English publishers, and her friend and editor Stanley Burnshaw all instructed her to make substantial changes to the manuscript.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-23040_ITM&referid=2090 (143 words)

	Christina Stead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Her novels, written in the distinctive language of the interior monologist, treat the problem of evil, particularly the destruction wrought by human obsessions.
		Christina stead: the integrity of the writer.(Critical Essay) (Southerly)
		Christina Stead and the "Marxist Imaginary".(Critical Essay) (Southerly)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0846581.html (223 words)

	Australian Authors - Christina Stead (1902-83) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christina Stead was born and raised in Australia but spent the bulk of her life abroad, living in London (1928-29), Paris (1929-37), USA (1937-47), Europe (1947-53), and England (1953-1974) before returning to Australia to live.
		She left Australia for London in 1928 in order to fulfill a longing that would be similarly reflected by greater numbers of Australian literary figures some forty years later.
		The next year Stead visited Australia for the first time since she departed some forty years earlier, and returned to live there permanently in 1974.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/authors/steadc/steadc.html (247 words)

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