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Dearest Idol
''Dearest Idol'' (1929) is a novel by Australian writer Martin Boyd. It was published under the author's pseudonym "Walter Beckett". Story outline The novel is set in Europe and follows the story of a 19-year-old boy named Tony Dawson (called "Boysie" by his by Aunt Matilda). Tony and Matilda have moved to London, and Tony has left school and gone to work in a well-known bank. While working there he meets Boris and the novel explores the friendship that develops between them. Critical reception In her PhD thesis titled "Deconstructing Martin Boyd : Homosocial Desire and the Transgressive Aesthetic", Jenny Blain notes in her introduction that "the novel's predominant focus son narcissism, egoism and homosexual possibility. Tony is a monster of vanity and self-love; he also has an infantile fixation on adulation and power." Notes Martin Boyd was not acknowledged as the author of this book until this was unearthed in 1977 by Brenda Niall of Monash University and Terence O'Neill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Boyd
Martin à Beckett Boyd (10 June 1893 – 3 June 1972) was an Australian writer born into the à Beckett–Boyd family, a family synonymous with the establishment, the judiciary, publishing and literature, and the visual arts since the early 19th century in Australia. Boyd was a novelist, memoirist and poet who spent most of his life after World War I in Europe, primarily Britain. His work drew heavily on his own life and family, with his novels frequently exploring the experiences of the English Australian, Anglo-Australian upper and middle classes. His writing was also deeply influenced by his experience of serving in World War One. Boyd's siblings included the potter Merric Boyd (1888–1959), painters Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923) and Helen à Beckett Read, née Boyd (1903–1999). He was intensely involved in family life and took a keen interest in the development of his nephews and nieces and their families, including potter Lucy Beck (1916-2009), painter Arthur Boyd (1920– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbs-Merrill
The Bobbs-Merrill Company was an American book publisher active from 1850 until 1985, and located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Company history The Bobbs-Merrill Company began in 1850 October 3 when Samuel Merrill bought an Indianapolis bookstore and entered the publishing business. After his death in 1855, his son, Samuel Merrill, Jr. continued the business. Soon after the American Civil War (1861–1865) the business became Merrill, Meigs, and Company, and in 1883 the name changed again to the Bowen-Merrill Company. In 1903 the name became the Bobbs-Merrill Company, after long-time director, William Conrad Bobbs. From 1899 through 1909, the company published 16 novels whose sales placed each of them among the nation's top ten best-selling books of the year for one or more years. The company was plaintiff in '' Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus'', 210 U.S. 339 (1908), a case regarded as the origin of copyright's first-sale doctrine. Bobbs-Merrill was known for publishing such autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Madeleine Heritage
''The Madeleine Heritage'' (1928) (also known as ''The Montfords'') is a novel by Australian author Martin Boyd. It won the ALS Gold Medal in 1928. Plot summary The novel tells the story of the "Montford" family who settled in Melbourne before the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s. The story commences with the arrival of the Montfords on the brig Chamois in Hobson's Bay near the new settlement of Port Phillip. Henry Montford, a young barrister from Lincolns Inn, has transported his family to the new colony to start a new life. Henry's brother Simon is already living in the colony, and the novel follows the reunion of the two families and their rise through the social ranks during the 1850s, and on to the turn of the century. Notes * Austlit notes that the working title for the novel was ''Great Grandmother Madeleine''. * The novel is believed to be a thinly disguised history of a major Victorian family, with one reviewer in 1933 stating: "Those familiar with the social, legal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandal Of Spring
''Scandal of Spring'' (1934) is a novel by Australian writer Martin Boyd. Story outline Set in a small English seaside village, the novel follows the story of the youth John Vazetti with lives with his parents in a cottage with tearooms attached. John falls in love with a young woman, Madge, who is visiting family in the village. Although their relatives try to push the two apart they eventually run off to London where John is arrested and imprisoned. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Courier-Mail'' found that this "is a book of youth, misunderstood and battered by the blindness and prejudice of the hide-bound middle-aged. Put so baldly, it sounds commonplace, but there is nothing commonplace in the beautifully-written story. It tells with that delicacy of touch that is part of Mr. Martin Boyd's charm." In ''The Age'', the reviewer was rather dismissive, noting: "Mr Boyd needs a bigger and better theme for the display of his literary talents." See also * 1934 in Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Niall
Brenda Mary Niall (born 25 November 1930) is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers. Educated at Genazzano FCJ College, in Kew, Victoria, and the University of Melbourne, Niall began writing during her time as reader in the Department of English at Monash University. In June 2004 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for "services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic" while in 2001 she was awarded the Centenary Medal for "service to Australian Society and the humanities in the study of Australian literature". In 1990 she was elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Niall is the aunt of sports journalist Jake Niall and judge Richard Niall. Bibliography * ''Martin Boyd'' – about Martin Boyd (Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press, 1974); revised ed. 1977. * ''Seven Little Billabongs: The World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1929. Books * Arthur H. Adams – ''A Man's Life'' * Martin Boyd – '' Dearest Idol'' * Bernard Cronin ** ''Bracken'' ** ''Toad'' * Jean Devanny – ''Riven'' * M. Barnard Eldershaw – '' A House is Built'' * Mabel Forrest – ''White Witches'' * Arthur Gask – ''The Lonely House'' * Mary Gaunt – ''The Lawless Frontier'' * Norman Lindsay – ''Madam Life's Lovers : A Human Narrative Embodying a Philosophy of the Artist in Dialogue Form'' * Jack McLaren – ''A Diver Went Down'' * Frederic Manning – ''The Middle Parts of Fortune : Somme and Ancre, 1916'' * Myra Morris – ''Enchantment'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''Coonardoo'' * Henry Handel Richardson – '' Ultima Thule'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''Visitors to Hugo'' * Arthur W. Upfield – '' The Barrakee Mystery'' Short stories * Dulcie Deamer – ''As It Was in the Beginning'' * Vance Palmer ** "A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Martin Boyd
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Australian Novels
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