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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.
Martin Boyd (born June 10, 1893, Lucerne, Switz.—died June 3, 1972, Rome) was an Anglo-Australian novelist, best known for The Montforts (1928), a novel noted for its vigorous and humorous characterizations.
Boyd Martin is a three-time Olympian and one of the most successful international athletes in the equestrian discipline of eventing. Boyd is currently ranked third in the world and operates his business out of Windurra USA in Cochranville, Pennsylvania.
Martin à Beckett Boyd (10 June 1893 - 3 June 1972) was an Australian writer born Lucerne, Switzerland, 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.
The Australian author Martin Boyd is best known for The Montforts, a novel noted for its robust and humorous characters. Boyd also published under the pen name Martin Mills. Martin à Beckett Boyd was born on June 10, 1893, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Martin Boyd used his own family history as the basis for this remarkable coming-of-age novel, and presents a compelling psychological portrait of his wild, charismatic older brother.
Martin Boyd's The Cardboard Crown is the first part of a quartet exploring the secret history of an upper-class Anglo-Australian family. It's an amazingly vivid and absorbing saga supposedly based on Boyd's own family — in his author's note he claims the plot is factual, but "the characters and certain episodes are fictitious".
Martin Boyd's major novels take Australia and Europe as settings to record the bihemispheric lives of those who until after World War II considered themselves Anglo-Australians, rather than just plain Australians, and spent more time at home in England than in their birthplace.
Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by World War I. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life.
This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboard.
