The Boyds
A Family Biography
$99.07
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2007
Summary
The Boyd family is Australia’s most remarkable artistic dynasty. Among the descendants of landscape painter Emma Minnie Beckett and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd are talented painters, potters, sculptors, architects, writers and musicians, several of international standing.
This ‘family biography’ by award-winning writer Brenda Niall traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition. She places the Boyds in their historical and personal contexts, tells the interwoven storie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522853841 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522853846 |
| Author: | Brenda Niall |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 820g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 157mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Brenda Niall
Brenda Niall, one of Australia’s best-known writers, is the author of four award-winning biographies. She has an AO for services to Australian literature, and an honorary D.Litt. from Monash, as well as degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, and Monash University. As Reader in English at Monash University, she gave courses on Australian literature, American literature, biography, and autobiography. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Michigan, Yale University, and the Australian National University, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She now writes full-time, and is a frequent reviewer for the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Book Review.
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