CSacquired her third mother in her lifetime of four and a half years when her father
married as his second wife Ada Gibbins
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Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
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Wealth and Poverty
Christina Stead
Money was dreadfully short in these years: in London CS
felt they could no longer afford to get together with friends in the evening. When her stepmother
died, leaving three hundred pounds each to her...
