In a novel by an author with this surname, a eugenicist lectures his Singaporean secretary Naden about the coming “United States of Mankind” while on an Anthropological Mission in Malaya. An Auckland literary don with this surname was posthumously portrayed as the narcissistic philanderer “Karl” in his daughter Charlotte Grimshaw’s memoir The Mirror Book. A novel by an author with this surname ends with a girl nicknamed “Little Womey” and “Looloo” fleeing Spa House in Annapolis after “Mothering” drinks a cyanide-laced cup of tea. Randall Jarrell’s “An Unread Book” is an introduction to a novel by an author with this surname, in which the alcoholic Henny is tormented by the bizarre baby talk of her husband, the civil servant Sam Pollitt. For 10 points, the Australian author of The Man Who Loved Children had what surname and the first name Christina? ■END■
ANSWER: Stead [accept Christina Stead; accept C. K. Stead or Christian Karlson Stead]
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