Christina Stead’s Student Publications selected work   poetry   short story   prose  
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'This selection of Christina Stead's student publications was edited by Margaret Harris to accompany her essay, 'Christina Stead's Earliest Publications.''

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  • Includes the following:

    • 'The Hill' (poetry): originally published High School Chronicle: Magazine of Sydney Girls’ High School, Oct. 1918: 7 (by Peggy Stead)
    • 'A Psalm of Hockey (With Apologies to Longfellow)' (poetry): originally published High School Chronicle: Magazine of Sydney Girls’ High School, Sept. 1919: 25 (by Christina)
    • 'Social Notes' (prose): originally published The Kookaburra: Magazine of the Sydney Teachers’ College 12 Dec. 1920: 12–13 (by C.E. Stead)
    • ;The Key' (short story): originally published The Kookaburra: Magazine of the Sydney Teachers’ College 13 Nov. 1921): 32–5. (by C.E. Stead)
    • 'Psychological Moments (A Student's Glossary)' (prose): originally published The Kookaburra: Magazine of the Sydney Teachers’ College 13 (Nov. 1921): 18. (by C.E. Stead)
    • 'Students' Song Festival' (prose): originally published The Kookaburra: Magazine of the Sydney Teachers’ College 13 (Nov. 1921): 44–5. (by C.E.S.)
    • 'The Gentle Supervisor' (poem): originally published The Kookaburra: Magazine of the Sydney Teachers’ College 13(Nov. 1921): 16. (by C.E. Stead)
    • 'Duty Past' (poem): originally published The Kookaburra: Magazine of the Sydney Teachers’ College 13 (Nov.1921): 44 (by C.E.S.)
    • 'In the Great Hall' (poem): originally published The Kookaburra: Magazine of the Sydney Teachers’ College 14 (November 1922): 7. (by C.E.S.)

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Christina Stead’s Earliest Publications Margaret Harris , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 8 December vol. 31 no. 6 2016;

'Christina Stead composed her own story of how she came to be published, moving from recollections of childhood precocity to the much repeated anecdotes of her employer Wilhelm Blech (Bill Blake) recognising the power of a draft of Seven Poor Men of Sydney in 1928, and in 1931 the publisher Peter Davies (‘Peter Pan’) agreeing to publish her. Deductions about her earliest writings are frequently made from those of her fictional heroines Louisa Pollit in The Man Who Loved Children (1940) and Teresa Hawkins in For Love Alone (1944). Stead’s earliest known publications appeared in the magazines of her high school and the teacher training college she attended. Some of them are newly identified in my discussion, while those previously known have received only glancing attention. This article discusses these publications, in both poetry and prose, together with her editorial work during her student days in Sydney; and proposes a qualification to the view put by the biographer Hazel Rowley that Stead as a student was a withdrawn outsider. The supplementary collection, ‘Christina Stead’s Student Publications’, provides a document of record by reprinting a story, poems and occasional pieces from those formative student years.'

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