Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
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Hazel Rowley
Standard Name: Rowley, Hazel
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | During her time in the USA, SB
embarked on a love-affair with Chicago writer Nelson Algren
. They continued to correspond after her return to France, and in 1998 selections from this correspondence were published... |
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer (the same who had hailed Stead the short-story writer as an impressive new talent) ranked her novel far lower. Even though he found here curiosity, wit, delight in words, and... |
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | This was, says Hazel Rowley
, one of those highly original novels that do not take off at first. |
| Textual Features | Christina Stead | It is a gentle story, called by Hazel Rowley
in the Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyChekhovian
. Its protagonist, Edward Massine, a Second World War veteran, owns two apartment houses in New York and... |
| Textual Production | Christina Stead | In 1972 CS
spent three painful months over a commission to review Quentin Bell
's life of Virginia Woolf
. She found many aspects and supposed aspects of Woolf repugnant: her alleged lack of appreciation... |
| Textual Production | Christina Stead | CS
published The Beauties and the Furies, a novel revolving around student life in Paris. The book bears on its preliminary pages the date of March 1936; Hazel Rowley
dates the US edition... |
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Texts
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.