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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
Politician
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Social
Money
Made
Dispossession
Shifting
Classes
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