Christina Stead: A Biography.

The Nation | November 21, 1994| | Copyright

In 1936 Christina Stead, a young Australian living and writing in New York, was described as "the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf." The occasion of this extravagant praise (by Clifton Fadiman in The New Yorker) was the publication of Stead's third book, a now largely forgotten novel titled The Beauties and Furies. Between 1936 and 1952, Stead published six more novels, among them House of All Nations (1938), a wildly funny, Rabelaisian satire of capitalism, and The Man Who Loved Children (1940), her best-known book, ...

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