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Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological.
Christina Stead was an Australian novelist known for her political insights and firmly controlled but highly individual style.

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Christina Stead and her life in Letters

Christina Stead remains one of Australia's most illustrious writers. She was also close with numerous influential literary figures, such as Dorothy Green, Stanley Burnshaw, Ettore Rella, Nettie Palmer, Clem Christesen, Elizabeth Harrower and A.D. Hope. These significant friendships endured throughout her life and her career, and have been canvassed and considered within her correspondence with them.

Christina Stead’s letters, with their awkward Australian bones, their cosmopolitan sensibility and their ‘‘intelligent ferocity’’, cannot help but draw us in. Talking into the Typewriter: Selected letters (1973–1983) is the second volume in the collection of letters, the first being A Web of Friendship.

Together they comprise a collection of Christina Stead's letters from the year 1928, until her death in 1983. Below is an edited extract from Hilary McPhee's introduction to Talking into the Typewriter.

A few months before Christina Stead died in April 1983, a photographer from Mode magazine captured something of the force field of

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Christina Stead: A Biography

CHRISTINA STEAD left Sydney for Europe in 1928 at aged 26 and did not return to Australia until she was 72. By then she had become a world–class writer, rivalling Patrick White as the finest writer Australia has produced. She wrote fiction that was large and passionate, original and demanding, as was her life. She was a cosmopolitan writer with her genius for portraying disparate locales, voices and expressions. A child of the Edwardian era, she came to maturity during that period of cataclysmic change straight after the Great War, before radio and jet travel transformed communications.

She arrived in England in 1928, and Wall Street crashed the following year. The movements of Stead and her companion Bill Blake reflected the tide of expatriates. They were in Paris at the same time as James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. They were in the United States when John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath. Then when left-wing solidarity gave way to the Second World War and its tragic aftermath, the Cold War, Stead and Blake fled McCarthyist America for Europ

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Christina Stead

Australian writer

Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a member of the Communist Party.^[1] She spent much of her life outside Australia, although she returned before her death.

Biography

Christina Stead's father was the marine biologist and pioneer conservationist David George Stead; her mother was his first wife Ellen Butters, who died in 1904.^[2] She was born in the Sydney suburb of Rockdale. They lived in Rockdale at Lydham Hall, now operating as a museum.^[3]

Stead later moved with her family to the suburb of Watsons Bay in 1917. She was the only child of her father's first marriage, and had five half-siblings from his second marriage. He also married a third time, to Yolette Thistle Harris, the Australian botanist, educator, author, and conservationist.^[4] According to some, this house