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Christina Stead
Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) 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 was never a member of the Communist Party. She spent much of her life outside Australia, although she returned before her death.
Biography.
Christina Stead's father was the marine biologist and pioneer conservationist David George Stead. She was born in the Sydney suburb of Rockdale. They lived in Rockdale at Lydham
Blue Mountains is named after him. He was survived by two daughters and three sons of his second marriage and by the only child of his first marriage, the novelist Christina Stead.
Sam in "The Man Who Loved Children" by Christina Stead is partly modelled on her father.
Publications.
As well as numerous papers and articles, books authored by Stead include:
- 1905 – "Crustaceans: Ancient, Modern and Mythical. With notes on edible crustaceans of NSW". William Brooks: Sydney.