In this decade she relied on the friendship of Ettore
and Jessie Rella
in New York by letter, and that of Ron Geering
(who had published a book about her) on the spot. She had...
Literary responses
Christina Stead
The tide began to turn with the rediscovery in the USA of The Man Who Loved Children, and in Australia a Christina Stead special issue of Southerly (a journal published at Sydney) in...
Textual Production
Christina Stead
Her work on this book dated back to her American experience in the 1940s. Working on it at the beginning of the next decade she allowed herself to entertain high hopes for it,
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
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but...
Textual Production
Christina Stead
A volume entitled Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead made its posthumous appearance in print, edited by R. G. Geering
, more than fifty years after her first volume of short fiction.
Virago Press
posthumously published I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist by CS
, a novel tracing the decline of an intellectual left-wing couple. It was edited by R. G. Geering
, who had collected Stead's short stories.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.