• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE3754

Stead, Christina Ellen

(1902 – 1983)
  • Born 17 July, 1902, Rockdale, Sydney New South Wales Australia
  • Died 31 March, 1983, Sydney New South Wales
  • Occupation Novelist, Writer

Summary

After a short teaching career, Christina Stead travelled to Paris for study, then to London. She returned to Australia in 1969 after many years abroad to take up a fellowship at the Australian National University. In 1974 she returned to live in Australia permanently.

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Dorothy Green, 1943-1990 [manuscript]
    • Papers of Christina Stead, 1937-1988 [manuscript]
    • Papers of Christina Stead, 1919-1996 [manuscript]
    • Letters by Christina Stead to Margaret Hanks, 1938-1982 [manuscript]
    • Literary manuscript, 1973 [manuscript]
    • Papers of Christina Stead, 1916-1990 [manuscript]
    • Notebook and letter by Christina Stead to Edith Anderson, circa 1949-1951 [manuscript]
    • Correspondence with Christina Stead, 1969-1983 [manuscript]
    • Letters and typescript of Christina Stead, 1969-1970 [manuscript]
    • Papers of Oliver Stallybrass, 1965-1981 [manuscript]

Published resources

  • Edited Book
    • 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988
    • Dearest Munx: The Letters of Christina Stead and William J. Blake, Harris, Margaret, 2005
  • Book
    • The Beauties and Furies, Stead, Christina, 1936
    • Christina Stead: Selected Fiction and Nonfiction, Stead, Christina, 1994
    • Cotters' England, Stead, Christina, 1967
    • Dark Places of the Heart, Stead, Christina, 1966
    • For Love Alone, Stead, Christina, 1944
    • Great Stories of the South Sea Islands, Stead, Christina, 1955
    • House of All Nations: A Novel, Stead, Christina
    • I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist, Stead, Christina, 1986
    • Letty Fox, Her Luck, Stead, Christina, 1946
    • The Little Hotel: A Novel, Stead, Christina, 1973
    • A Little Tea, A Little Chat, Stead, Christina, 1948
    • Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife), Stead, Christina, 1976
    • Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead, Stead, Christina, 1986
    • The People with the Dogs, Stead, Christina, 1952
    • The Salzburg Tales, Stead, Christina, 1934
    • Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Stead, Christina, 1934
  • Resource

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