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'Eleanor Herbert Brent is a beautiful woman - tall, blond and athletic. Sexuality forms her personality and as a young English graduate on the loose in London, she savours the capacity to excite - and sleep with - every man she meets. At the same time she is deeply conventional, believing in respectability, in the desire to be a wife and mother in the 'dear old-fashioned way'. But real love between a man and a woman - something which could transform her into the passionate woman she really is - Eleanor determinedly avoids. When she is thirty she marries and has children. However, her wholesome but unsatisfying suburban life collapses with the departure of her pompous prig of a husband. She survives to find some success on the fringes of literary life, new lovers, new friends, but never to know herself. Eleanor is a literary portrait on a magnificent scale, but she is more than that. Divided in herself and deeply self-deluded, Eleanor's life is a powerful metaphor for the England of the 1920s to the 1950s through which she lives.' (Publication summary)
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Christina Stead : Her Luck
2013
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— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 3 2013; (p. 66-78) -
'The Rest Flies Down the Wind' : Complexities of Late Style in the Work of Christina Stead
2012
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criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 253-257) -
Christina Stead: The Integrity of the Writer
2003
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 3 2003; (p. 53-62) -
Christina Stead's Last Book : The Novel and the Best-Seller
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 41-52) Discusses the literary aspirations and successes of Christina Stead's protagonists and their relationship to Stead's own ambitions for I'm Dying Laughing. - y Christina Stead : Satirist Altona : Common Ground Publishing , 2002 Z960254 2002 single work criticism Reviews Stead's novels as inheritors of the tradition of Roman satire, arguing that Stead's satirical fiction presents a contemporary view of her own historical period from 1930 until the Cold War. Drawing on Stead's notes, diaries and manuscripts, Pender examines several of Stead's novels and her English short stories and puts forward an argument about the centrality of satire to Stead's discourse about culture and history. She also draws attention to the intellectual rigour and encyclopaedic breadth and vision evident in Stead's fiction and demonstrates Stead's significant contribution to the radical novel in the twentieth century.
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Varieties of Courage
1976
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review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 5 no. 2 1976; (p. 91-98)
— Review of Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) 1976 single work novel ; A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel -
[Review] Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
1976
single work
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— Appears in: Harper's Magazine , July 1976; (p. 76)
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[Review] Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
1976
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review
— Appears in: The National Times , 5-10 July 1976; (p. 19)
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[Review] Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
1977
single work
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— Appears in: The Australian , 30 April 1977; (p. 28)
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[Review] Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
1978
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review
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , April vol. 17 no. 1 1978; (p. 114-115)
— Review of Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) 1976 single work novel -
Christina Stead's Last Book : The Novel and the Best-Seller
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 41-52) Discusses the literary aspirations and successes of Christina Stead's protagonists and their relationship to Stead's own ambitions for I'm Dying Laughing. -
Christina Stead: The Integrity of the Writer
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 3 2003; (p. 53-62) -
Feminist Readings : The Case of Christina Stead
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Crossing Boundaries : Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges 1988; (p. 81-91) -
'The Rest Flies Down the Wind' : Complexities of Late Style in the Work of Christina Stead
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 253-257) -
Christina Stead's "Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife)" and the English Middle Class
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 26 no. 1 1991; (p. 49-64)
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