Christina Stead

The Middle Ages have proved to be imaginatively a fluid and artistically enticing entity. As Umberto Eco has underscored, many have turned to the Middle…

Stead discusses her career, relationship to Australia and approach to writing among other topics.

Christina Stead is one of the major innovatory prose writers in English of this century. This needs stating at the outset, since her stature, distinction…

Wilding provides a brief obituary for Christina Stead following her death in March 1983.

Christina Stead's fictions continue to puzzle and fascinate her readers. Following in the traditions of debate first sparked by Hazel Rowley's controversial biography, these two…

'If she had been male and English, perhaps she would have been recognised sooner for the experimentalist she is. But if she had been male…

Discusses three Australian novels--The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead, Time Enough Later (1945) by Kylie Tennant and The Watch Tower (1966)…

Christina Stead discusses her career and approach to writing.

CHRISTINA Stead's Letty Fox, Her Luck (1946) is not considered one of her major works. Critics have found it a racy, entertaining but rather shallow…

A checklist of work by and about Christina Stead.

Hazel Rowley's biography of Christina Stead has generated very divergent responses in its early reviews. Michael Wilding in the Australian Book Review (152, July 1993)…

Includes the text of a letter Christina Stead written to her stepmother Thistle Stead in 1942 regarding her novel The Man Who Loved Children (1940).

Christina Stead had her first two books published in London in 1934. It was an impressive literary debut by what the Bulletin called 'a Sydney…

Examines the use of dramatic methods and techniques in Stead’s work, particularly in her presentation of characters’ lives.

The Magic Phrase: Critical Articles on Christina Stead, edited by Margaret Harris, appears in the Studies in Australian Literature series (UQP), tile only regular…

In a long and detailed interview, Stead discusses among other topics her peripatetic career, literary influences, her relationship to Australia and childhood in Sydney.

Drawing on a significant motif from the novel itself, Bindella argues that the metaphor of the web helps clarify the apparent 'shapelessness' of Stead's Seven…

Christina Stead discusses her approach to short fiction and the childhood experiences that inform her writing.

With specific reference to Virgil’s Eclogues, Paul Alpers argues that ‘the poetics of pastoral can tell us something about poetics in general’ (The…

Education is a recurring concern in Stead's fiction, but nowhere is it more prominent as a theme than in her unpublished and largely ignored manuscript…