Abstract: The early colonial Australia was mainly a male dominated country. Woman was a colonized sex double confined within the domain of household and society. Throughout the history, Australian women writers have been striving to write about their own experiences. Christina Stead is a major figure in the literary history of Australia. Her novel For Love Alone explores women's experiences with emphasis on the role social and cultural forces played in forging women's selfhoods. The protagonist, Teresa went on a female odyssey, through which she was in seek of her own independence and selfhood. With the heroine' experiences, the female author was in a way to reconstruct her own youthful experiences and her work to a great extent reflects the real social circumstances in which women struggled to survive. This paper analyzes the female protagonist's struggle to gain individuality and freedom in order to render prominence to the intricate connection between literature and social circumstances.