biography
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Stead, Christina Ellen
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1902–83)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. She trained as a teacher, and travelled widely, living in France, the USA, and London. In the 1940s she was a screenwriter for MGM in Hollywood, and in 1952 she married the novelist William Blake. Her first collection of short stories, The Salzburg Tales, was published in 1934, followed in the same year by the novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney. Her best-known work, The Man Who Loved Children (1940, revised 1965), deals with the conflict between love and independence within marriage. |
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