Lucinda Brayford (1946) is a novel by Australian author Martin Boyd.[1]
 1948 US edition (publ. E.P. Dutton) | |
| Author | Martin Boyd |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cresset Press (UK) |
Publication date | 1946 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 546 pp |
| Preceded by | Nuns in Jeopardy |
| Followed by | Such Pleasure |
Plot summary
editThis is the story of a beautiful woman set mainly in Melbourne, Victoria and England, from the early 1900s to the Second World War.
Lucinda Vane is born into a wealthy Melbourne family. Nellie Melba appears in the novel, singing at a garden party thrown by Lucinda's mother, and is described as having the "loveliest voice in the world".[2] Lucinda spurns the love of a distinguished family friend, Tony Duff, to marry the dashing aide-de-camp to the Governor, Hugo Brayford. Lucinda's life of ease is replaced by hardship when Hugo takes her to England just before the First World War. She then realises that her husband has married her for her money, and he has a mistress.
Adaptations
edit| Lucinda Brayford | |
|---|---|
| Based on | Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd |
| Written by | Cliff Green |
| Directed by | John Gauci |
| Starring | Wendy Hughes Sam Neill |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 4 x 1 hour |
| Production | |
| Producer | John Gauci |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 15 June 1980 |
This novel was adapted for a television mini-series in 1980, produced by Oscar Whitbread and directed by John Gauci, from a screenplay by Cliff Green, featuring Wendy Hughes as Lucinda, and Sam Neill as Tony Duff.[3][4][5] BBC Radio broadcast a dramatisation by Elspeth Sandys in 2005 and 2020.[6]
References
edit- ^ Austlit - Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd
- ^ Boyd, p. 96
- ^ IMDB
- ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996, p.202
- ^ "LOVELY LUCINDA". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 11 June 1980. p. 138 Supplement: FREE Your TV Magazine. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ^ "Martin Boyd - Lucinda Brayford - 1. Changes - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020.
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