Christina Stead biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Christina Stead

Author Name:

Christina Stead

Born As:

Christina Ellen Stead

Other Names:

Born:

17 Jul 1902

Died:

31 Mar 1983




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Novelist short story writer                          
Selected Works:

Seven Poor Men of Sydney - 1934
The Beauties and Furies - 1936
House of all Nations - 1938
The Man Who Loved Children - 1940
For Love Alone - 1945
Modern Women in Love - 1945 edited with William J. Blake
Letty Fox: Her Luck - 1946
A Little Tea. A Little Chat - 1948
The People with the Dogs - 1952
Dark Places of the Heart - 1966
Cotters' England - 1967
Australian Writers and their work - 1969
The Little Hotel: A Novel - 1973
Miss Herbert: The Suburban Wife - 1976
I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist - 1986
The Palace With Several Sides: A Sort of Love Story - 1986

Short Stories:

The Salzburg Tales - 1934

The Puzzleheaded Girl: Four Novellas - 1965 - containing The Puzzleheaded Girl, The Dianas, The Rightangled Creek and Girl from the Beach

A Christina Stead Reader - 1978 edited by Jean B. Read
Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead, edited by R. G. Geering - 1985

Letters:

Web of Friendship: Selected letters, 1928–1973, edited by R.G. Geering - 1992
Talking Into the Typewriter: Selected letters, 1973–1983, edited by R.G. Geering - 1992
Dearest Munx: The Letters of Christina Stead and William J. Blake, edited by Margaret Harris - 2006

Translations:

In balloon and Bathyscaphe by Auguste Piccard - 1955
Colour of Asia by Fernando Gigon - 1956.                          
Mother 
Father David George Stead                          
1934 - Seven Poor Men of Sydney