CS
had long wanted to write a novel about the English working class. In 1949 she visited the Kellys of Newcastle upon Tyne, family of her friend Anne Dooley
, and observed them closely...
Family and Intimate relationships
Christina Stead
Another flirtatious relationship, begun some years later and enduring into late middle age, was with a radical New York pharmacist named Harry Bloom
.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
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Even in the 1960s Stead fell in love, with a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Christina Stead
She visited the USA with hopes of something developing from her sentimental friendship with Harry Bloom
, but Harry was ill and mostly absent. They had only a brief, tender meeting just before her departure...
Travel
Christina Stead
In spring 1966, after various abortive holidays or ideas for holidays, they made a trip via New York (to exploit CS
's recent fame) to Puerto Rico to stay with Anne
and Harry Bloom
.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.