Talking into the typewriter : selected letters (1928-1973) / Christina Stead ; introduction by Hilary McPhee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stead, Christina, author.

Contributor:

McPhee, Hilary, writer of foreword.

Series:

Miegunyah modern library.

Miegunyah modern library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stead, Christina, 1902-1983--Correspondence.

Stead, Christina.

Stead, Christina, 1902-1983.

Novelists, Australian--20th century--Correspondence.

Novelists, Australian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Australia : The Miegunyah Press, 2018.

Summary:

Letter writing was a vital part of Christina Stead's creative life and it grew increasingly important in her last decade. It was how she engaged with the outside world and became the focus of her writing energies. Stead was a vivacious, funny, erudite, expansive and witty correspondent. It was a practice she enjoyed, answering all correspondence she received, including Elizabeth Harrower, Stanley Burnshaw, Dorothy Green and H C Coombs. Beginning in England in 1973, the letters in Talking into the Typewriter span her return to Australia in 1973 until her death in 1983. Politics, friends and family, literary accolades and achievements, pets and reminiscences are all dissected, canvassed and considered.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Dedication

Copyright

Introduction

Preface from the 1992 edition

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522872699

0522872697

OCLC:

1499720062