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gave birth to five children in all, four of them within five years. The two eldest, Christabel Harriette
(born in September 1880) and Estelle Sylvia
(born in May 1882), became, like their mother, high-profile...
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Christina Stead
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was a great letter-writer, though she destroyed, selectively, many of the letters she received. Her letters are widely scattered, but many are held by the National Library
of Australia at Canberra.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
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She...
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Christina Stead
She had been working on this novel, originally titled Mrs Trollope and Madame Blaise, in the early 1950s. Her New York agent, Helen Strauss
, was pessimistic from the first about placing it, and...