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Stead, Christina Ellen (1902 - 1983)

Archival/Heritage ResourcesPublished Resources
Novelist and Writer
Born: 17 July 1902  Rockdale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.  Died: 31 March 1983  Sydney, New South Wales.

After a short teaching career, Christina Stead travelled to Paris for study, then to London. She returned to Australia in 1969 after many years abroad to take up a fellowship at the Australian National University. In 1974 she returned to live in Australia permanently.

Published Resources

Books

  • Stead, Christina, House of All Nations: A Novel, Peter Davies, London. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, The Salzburg Tales, Peter Davies, London, 1934. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Peter Davies, London, 1934. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, The Beauties and Furies, Appleton-Century, New York, 1936, 374 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, For Love Alone, Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1944. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Letty Fox, Her Luck, Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1946. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, A Little Tea, A Little Chat, Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1948. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, The People with the Dogs, Little, Brown, Boston, 1952. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Great Stories of the South Sea Islands, Muller, London, 1955. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Dark Places of the Heart, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1966. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Cotters' England, Secker & Warburg, London, 1967. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, The Little Hotel: A Novel, Angus & Robertson, London, 1973. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife), Random House, New York, 1976. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic, 1986. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist, R.G. Geering (editor), Virago, London, 1986. [ Details... ]
  • Stead, Christina, Christina Stead: Selected Fiction and Nonfiction, Univeristy of Queensland Press, St Lucia, QLD, 1994. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

  • Harris, Margaret (ed.), Dearest Munx: The Letters of Christina Stead and William J. Blake, Christina Stead, William J. Blake, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic, 2005. [ Details... ]

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