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Flight From Australia And The Family

Anne Chisholm CHRISTINA STEAD: A LIFE OF LETTERS by Chris Williams Virago, £11.95, pp. 341 L ike her writing, Christina Stead, the Australian novelist who died aged 81 in 1983,......

He Was To Her A Heroine, She To Him A

hero Anita Brookner HENRY JAMES AND EDITH WHARTON: LETTERS, 1900-1915 edited by Lyall H. Powers Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f25, pp. 412 I n 1909, overcome by a black depress- ion,......