Hazel rowleys biography of christina stead

Hazel Rowley’s biography of Australian ex-pat novelist Christina Stead paints a portrait of a woman possessed by demons, however melodramatic this sounds, but also herself possessing literary genius.

So as readers, we can, at a remove, feel the grip of these demons (and they are many and varied), that harried this unhappy self-crossed individual.

A miserable childhood is often prerequisite for a successful artist, rage and guilt great goads.

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So it is here. Stead escaped from parochial isolated s Sydney, and her family, chasing love mostly but also experience in the wider world and found both, but not in the ways she expected. Fortunately, for her and us, she was blessed early on to find a partner, American Bill Blake, faithful (unlike Stead) and loving, who quickly recognised her talent and encouraged and supported her throughout their shared life.

When he died she could no longer write.

They led a peripatetic existence, shifting from E