to his following three novels being rejected by publishers, his novel, The Montforts achieved critical success. Despite this, Fitzpatrick wrote in 1963, "He has a public in England, and his novel Lucinda Brayford was a bestseller in America, but his work seems to be little known in Australia...". "Martin Boyd’s work is vaguely felt, I think, to be rather immoral because it is in conflict with the Australian ethos of the moment". In The Australian Book Review, McFarlane also claims that "There has always been something grudging about the Australian response to Boyd. Perhaps he would have been more critically and commercially popular if he had not confined himself to writing about the upper-middle classes". See also Charles Henry Chomley Boyd family References External links AustLit author entry The Fryer Library, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia UQFL22 – The Chomley, à Beckett, Boyd Collection The National Archives of Australia Open Access War Records of Martin à Beckett Boyd The National Archives Martin à Beckett Boyd's Service Record (Fee required to download information) Further reading 1893 births 1972 deaths 20th-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Australian male short story writers Victorian (Australia) architects Martin Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome ALS Gold Medal winners 20th-century Australian short story writers People educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew 20th-century Australian male writers People educated at St John's Theological College, Melbourne