Throughout their long relationship she endured escalating hostility from Blech's mother, Rosa
, who had long spells of living with them before her death in 1939. Stead built a wary relationship, friendly and even loving...
Residence
Christina Stead
CS
, her partner Bill Blech
, and Bill's mother
, left London (abandoning all their possessions there), streaked through Ireland from Dublin to Galway, and boarded a boat for Boston, Massachusetts.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.