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Written by Brenda Niall. By Melbourne Univ Pr.
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- Martin Boyd A Life
By Brenda Niall
First edition: Melbourne University Press 1988
Martin Boyd (1893-1972) is a contender for recognition as Australia's greatest novelist. Dr Niall's is the only full-scale biography available so it is gratifying that this book is itself a remarkable achievement. Boyd was an enigmatic figure. He wrote principally about life in Australian settings yet he spent most of his life living in England and on the Continent. No simple view of the writer emerges from his fiction, and the picture given in his correspondence differs significantly from what emerges from his personal diaries. Niall had good access to the friends of Boyd who remained alive, to his larger family, the houses he lived in, and much of his writing. I suppose this biography could be said to be authorized although the researcher has not shied away from controversy. It remains a general biographer and specialists will want more. Coming from a continuing family of visual artists of acclaim, Boyd was very serious about his "hobby" of painting and drawing, and more needs to be said on this. Who were the Bloomsbury people he met who so influenced him? Then it would be interesting to know about the book reviews Boyd published anonymously to fit a convention of the times. And Boyd has always had a public in the United States, but what did U.S. reviewers say about his writing? Niall acknowledges that since she finished writing on Boyd (to go on to another renowned biography) new and important data have come to light. Niall's life of Boyd remains an authoritative general biography and seems set to become at least a minor classic of the genre. Kevin J. Batt - Ph.D. Melbourne, Australia (c/- daniel_batt@msn.com)
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Written by Morndi Munro and Mordi Munro and Daisy Angajit and Mary Anne Jebb. By Magabala Books.
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OSKAR H. K. SPATE, 1911-2000.(geographer)(Obituary): An article from: The Geographical Review
Martin Boyd: A Life
From the strand to Boorooloola: M H Ellis as pioneer motorist.(Biography): An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
Renegade in Power
Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography. (book reviews): An article from: Australian Literary Studies
'The victim of his own temerity'? (1) Silence, scandal and the recall of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot.(Biography): An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
From Tobruk to Borneo: Memoirs of an Italian Aussie Volunteer
Semar's Cave: A Indonesian Journal
Emerarra: A Man of Merrara
Ride the Whirlpool: Selected Speeches of Lieutenant General Sanderson Ac, Governor of Western Australia, 2000-2005
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