Martin Boyd

By Brenda Niall

The first biography of Martin Beckett Boyd (1893-1972), Anglo-Australian novelist and member of Australia's best known family of artists.

Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by World War I. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life. Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, and an old family house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expatriates in Rome. In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before World War I, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522876994
• ISBN13: 9780522876994
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"