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'Christina Stead's relationship with the Communist Party is still the subject of considerable debate. According to her most authoritative biographer, Stead's creative passions were kindled by personalities, not politics, and she had no desire to join the party. Her 'commitment', Hazel Rowley asserts, 'was to her writing, not politics' (Rowley, 1993: 254), as if the two were distinct and separate spheres; and certainly there are lengthy complaints in Stead's letters about party-hacks and their blinkered actions.' (p 17)
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Modeled on Blake : Christina Stead's Communist Affiliation and Her Problematic Fellow-Travellers
Subjects:
- Seven Poor Men of Sydney 1934 single work novel
- House of All Nations 1938 single work novel
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