Letters of Christina Stead to Cyrilly Abels and Joan Daves

Résumé du livre

MS Acc10.038 comprises 359 letters from Christina Stead to her US agents Cyrilly Abels (bulk) and Joan Daves, dating from 1964-1982. Topics deal with political events during the 1960s, her writing, work in progress and experiences in her personal life, revival of her career from The man who loved children, feelings about her native Australia, book contracts, her husband's illness and death, opinions about issues involving homosexuality, euthanasia and politics. Associations with other famous writers and prominent people are drawn to such figures as Lawrence Pollinger, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, Frederick Warburg, Bobby Ortiz, Katherine Anne Porter, Max Ernst, Cass Canfield, Ford Madox Ford, Lamb Chevreuil, James Burns, Eldon Branda, Ron Geering, Bernard Handelsmann, Robert Lowell, Ettore Rella, Marguerite Reese, Dr. H.B. Gottlieb, Ann Bancroft, Stanley Burnshaw, Geoffrey Dutton, Randall Jarrell, Harry Bloom, Maurice Temple Smith and others (1 box).