Chronology<br > July 17. 1902 Born to David and Ellen Butters Stead in<br > Rockdale， N.S.W. Australia<br > 1904 Mother dies<br > 1907 David Stead marries Ada Gibbons. Family<br > moves from Bockdale to Lydham Hall，<br > Bexley<br > 1917 Family， with seven children， moves to Wat-<br > son s Bay， near Sydney Harbor. At Sydney<br > High School Stead writes for the school<br > magazine， The Chronicle<br > 1919 Wins scholarship to Sydney Teachers <br > College<br > 1921-1924 Works as teacher and with psychological<br > testing at Sydney Teachers College and for<br > N.S.W. Department of Education<br > 1922-1923 David Stead visits Malaya on government<br > trip<br > 1925 Goes to business school and works as a<br > secretary<br >March 28， 1928 Sails from Sydney to London<br >1928 Finds job as secretary for a firm of grain<br > merchants in London that William Blake<br > manages<br >1929 Goes with Blake to Paris and works as sec-<br > retary at a bank<br >1929-1935 Lives in Paris and travels around Europe<br >1931 Six weeks at Mozart festival in Salzburg<br >1934 The Salzburg Tales published; Seven Poor<br > Men of Sydney published "<br >