Martin Boyd

Hadgraft reviews the following monographs:

Martin Boyd by Brenda Niall (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1974).

Xavier Herbert by Harry Heseltine (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973).

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This checklist attempts to list all Martin Boyd's published work to date (1970) any manuscript material held by Australian libraries, and all Boyd criticism including…

Discusses the importance of family in Boyd’s life and work, arguing that for Boyd family is more important than place or nationality: ‘it is family…

Martin Boydhad no particular affection for the early novels which he published under the pseudonym 'Martin Mills'. The first two, Love Gods and Brangane…

In 1925 Martin Boyd published his first novel, Love Gods. From then until the Second World War he produced a book almost every year…

In his last essay, 'De Gustibus', Martin Boyd reiterates his belief that what gives greatness to a poem or a novel is 'its wisdom, its…

When Martin Boyd was urged by his Australian publishers, in 1968, to continue the Langton novels, he explained that he could not do so, because…

Discusses the connection between Martin Boyd's Nuns in Jeopardy and his cousin Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, particularly in terms of Lindsay's suggestions…