Lucinda Brayford (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin Boyd
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: Family chronicle
- Time of Work: The mid-1800’s to the early 1940’s
- Setting: Melbourne, London, and southern France
- Principal Characters: William Vane, Frederick (fred) Vane, Julia Vane, Lucinda, Arthur Brayford, Marian, Paul Brayford, Hugo Brayford, Mr. Straker
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Tradition, Power, personal or social, France or French people, Love or romance, Marriage, London, World War I, Business or business people, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Property, Industrialization, Australia or Australians
- Locales: France, London, England, Melbourne, Australia
The Novel
Lucinda Brayford is an expansive novel spanning the lives of two families over four generations. It follows the movements of the Vanes and the Brayfords across England, France, and Australia. The novel begins in the mid-1800’s, in an England ruled by tradition and a proud aristocracy, and concludes in England during World War II, with tradition replaced by expediency and pragmatism and the aristocracy besieged in their rather depleted manors by businessmen and industrialists.
In a sense, the novel is the biography of Lucinda Brayford; descriptions of...
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