Volume 11 No. 2 — 1 October 1983

Christina Stead

Michael Wilding

Abstract

Wilding provides a brief obituary for Christina Stead following her death in March 1983.

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Published 1 October 1983 in Volume 11 No. 2. Subjects: Christina Stead.

Cite as: Wilding, Michael. ‘Christina Stead.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1983, doi: 10.20314/als.fa824800e6.

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