Christina Stead

Christina Stead was born on 17 July 1902 in Rockdale, near Sydney; her mother died in 1904, and she grew up at Watsons Bay with her father, the naturalist David Stead. Trained at Sydney Teachers' College, she left for England in 1928, worked in London for a grain-trading firm, then in Paris in a bank, alongside the banker William Blake, her companion. She then lived in the United States and tried her luck as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Having returned to Australia in 1974, she died in Balmain, Sydney, on 31 March 1983.

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• NovelSeven Poor Men of SydneyChristina Stead · 1934Literature