Biography of christina stead

Australian writer

Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 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.^[1] 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; her mother was his first wife Ellen Butters, who died in 1904.^[2] She was born in the Sydney suburb of Rockdale.

Biography of christina stead married

They lived in Rockdale at Lydham Hall, now operating as a museum.^[3]

Stead later moved with her family to the suburb of Watsons Bay in 1917. She was the only child of her father's first marriage, and had five half-siblings from his second marriage.

He also married a third time, to Yolette Thistle Harris, the Australia