During her first summer in England CS
reached a nadir of despair and self-doubt after being rejected sexually by Keith Duncan
. She expected to die and perhaps resolved to die, but instead she seems...
Friends, Associates
Christina Stead
She had two Australian friends in London already, one of them a boyfriend. Keith Duncan
(studying at the LSE) was still just as angry a young man as he had been in Australia. Florence James
Textual Production
Christina Stead
This was a novel about her former boyfriend Keith Duncan
. It began in the early 1930s as The Young Man Will Go Far then became The Travelling Scholar before acquiring its final title.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
