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'In three years Christina Stead has written three books—The Salzburg Tales, 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney, 1935, and The Beauties and Furies, 1936—and they bring a new note into Australian fiction. The first is a collection of stories, told by pilgrims to the Mozart festival in Salzburg and held together by a slight and purely formal framework. The stories are set in many places, real and mythical, in this world and the next, and some are Australian. Seven Poor Men of Sydney is a novel, a pattern of lives, of thoughts and emotions, shown against a curiously patterned backcloth of Sydney. The Beauties and Furies is the first volume of a proposed picture in three volumes of student love, and is set in Paris. (Introduction)

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Revised and expanded version of the 1937 Bulletin article. In preparing this version Barnard wrote to Nettie Palmer for help on Stead's biographical details (Barnard to Palmer Sunday 1937. Palmer papers NLA MS 1174/1/5338. Noted in Plaque with Laurel: Essays ,Reviews and Correspondence. Ed. Maryanne Dever, 1995).

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y Essays in Australian Fiction M. Barnard Eldershaw , Melbourne London : Melbourne University Press Oxford University Press , 1938 Z371147 1938 selected work criticism Melbourne London : Melbourne University Press Oxford University Press , 1938
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1938
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pg. 158-181
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y M. Barnard Eldershaw : Plaque with Laurel, Essays, Reviews and Correspondence M. Barnard Eldershaw , Maryanne Dever (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995 Z247370 1995 selected work novel criticism prose correspondence biography review Abstract Each item in the selection is accompanied by a detailed editorial note on the background of the work. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1995
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1995
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pg. 233-237
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y The Magic Phrase : Critical Essays on Christina Stead Margaret Harris (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2000 Z556730 2000 anthology criticism Abstract
'Christina Stead (1902-83) is regarded worldwide as one of Australia's greatest novelists. The New Yorker called her "the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf". This is the first volume to provide an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays and critical literature from the 1980s and '90s by a range of Australian, North American and English critics.' (Publication summary)
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2000
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2000
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pg. 23-38, notes 267