Christina Stead
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Christina Stead 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
Christina Stead in 1938
House in Pacific Street, Watsons Bay, Sydney, where Stead lived 1917-1928
Stead's plaque on the Writers Walk, Circular Quay, Sydney
The Man Who Loved Children
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The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. It was not until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread crit
Christina Stead
…of Sydney (1934), dealt with the lives of radicals and dockworkers, but she was not a practitioner of social realism. Stead's best-known novel, titled The Man Who Loved Children, is largely based on her own childhood, and was first published in 1940. It was not until the poet Randall Jarrell wrote the introduction for a new…
First edition