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The Picnic (novel)
''The Picnic'' (1937) is a novel by Australian author 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 19t .... Plot outline Australian Matty Westlake is descended from an old English family and when her husband dies she is determined to take her sons, Christopher and Wilfred, back to England to introduce them to their forebears. The English side of the family is completely ignorant of Australian ways and the Australians also find themselves at odds with the English. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Weekly Times'' found the novel "humorous" and went on: "Here we have a fine book from the pen of an Australian born author. Mr Boyd is a really witty writer. His dialogue is clever and entertaining. He has a gift for characterisation and he can evoke an atmosphere." In ... [...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 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 (1920–1999), sculptor G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Of The Party
''Night of the Party'' (1938) is a novel by Australian author Martin Boyd. Plot outline The novel tells the story of painter Gavin Leigh's marriage to Ella Barnes. Starting in the present day (when the novel was written), a chance remark by one of the couple's children takes Ella back to the time when the two met in Cornwall while on holiday. Gavin married for convenience while Ella married for control and now she finds herself with a romantic rival from the initial encounter. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "A Modern Comedy" and went on: "Martin Boyd has already proved himself a clever and amusing novelist. He has a flair for dialogue, and his manner of using it suggests he has given this important part of novel-writing technique a good deal of thought. His handling of time shifts is smooth and artistically satisfactory...''Night of the Party'' is a compact and stimulating piece of work. Mr. Boyd, unlike many of his contemporaries, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1937. Books * Martin Boyd – '' The Picnic'' * Eleanor Dark – ''Sun Across the Sky'' * M. Barnard Eldershaw – ''Plaque with Laurel'' * Arthur Gask – ''Night of the Storm'' * Ion Idriess – ''Forty Fathoms Deep'' * Michael Innes – ''Hamlet, Revenge!'' * Seaforth Mackenzie – ''The Young Desire It'' * Leonard Mann – ''A Murder in Sydney'' * Vance Palmer – ''Legend for Sanderson'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''Intimate Strangers'' * Helen Simpson – ''Under Capricorn'' * F. J. Thwaites – '' Rock End'' * Arthur Upfield ** '' Mr. Jelly's Business'' ** '' Winds of Evil'' Poetry * Rosemary Dobson – ''Poems'' * Nora Kelly – ''The Song-Maker and Other Verse'' * Jack Lindsay – "On Guard for Spain" * John Shaw Neilson – "I Spoke to the Violet" Drama * Sumner Locke Elliott ** ''The Cow Jumped Over the Moon'' ** ''Glorious Noon'' * Miles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Martin Boyd
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. 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, in Chivalric romance, and in 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, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
