Unhappy Families
Angela Carter, 16 September 1982
The Beauties and Furies
by Christina Stead.
Virago, 329 pp., £3.95, July 1982,0 86068 175 0 Show More
by Christina Stead.
Virago, 329 pp., £3.95, July 1982,
“... thing. Especially since those two relatively recent novels – Cotters’ England (1966) and Miss Herbert (the Suburban Wife) (1976) – contain extremely important analyses of post-war Britain, address the subject of sexual politics at a profound level, and have been largely ignored in comparison with far lesser novels such as Doris Lessing’s The Golden ... ”