Ronald George Geering

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...

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...

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.

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, but...