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.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
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Whatever the artistic consequences of its national transposition of setting, some US critics found the...
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
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...
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...
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Texts
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.