Christina Stead, A Writer’s Friends
“It was accepted by this time at school that I was a writer; and I accepted it simply, too, without thinking about it.”
‘Countless Flaming Eyes’: The Genius of Christina Stead
by Meg Brayshaw. .. she saw insistently, with the countless flaming eyes of her flesh, the inner life of these unfortunate women and girls, her acquaintance
Christina Stead, A Waker and Dreamer (review)
“David’s appearance of whiteness, fairness, dazzled himself.” He was so sure of his own rightness that anyone who opposed him must therefore be evil.
‘Countless flaming eyes’: The Genius of Christina Stead
Yesterday marks 115 years since the birth of the writer Christina Stead, whom critics and readers are only quite recently recognising as one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the novel form. Born in suburban Sydney in 1902, late in life Stead claimed that a...
January 2015 Roundup: Historical Fiction
Eleven historical novels (including a children’s book) have been reviewed for the challenge in January and they are quite a diverse range. Three are set in medieval times. The ever popular novel Bitter Greens has been reviewed this time by Jo from Wallaby. She found:...#AWW2025
