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1 comments about Martin Boyd: A Life.
- 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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