词条 | Lucinda Brayford |
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| name = Lucinda Brayford | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:LucindaBrayford.jpg | caption = 1948 US edition (publ. E.P. Dutton) | author = Martin Boyd | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Cresset Press (UK) | release_date = 1946 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 546 pp | preceded_by = Nuns in Jeopardy | followed_by = Such Pleasure }}Lucinda Brayford (1946) is a novel by Australian author Martin Boyd.[1] Plot summaryThis 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 married her for her money, and he has a mistress. Television adaptation{{Infobox television| show_name = Lucinda Brayford | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | genre = | creator = | based_on = novel by Martin Boyd | writer = Cliff Green | screenplay = | story = | director = John Gauci | starring = Wendy Hughes Sam Neill | narrated = | theme_music_composer = | country = Australia | language = English | num_episodes = 4 x 1 hour | producer = John Gauci | editor = | cinematography = | runtime = | company = | distributor = | budget = | network = ABC | first_aired = 15 June 1980 | last_aired = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | website = }} This novel was adapted for a television mini-series in 1980, produced by Oscar Whitbread, directed by John Gauci, the screenplay by Cliff Green, and featured Wendy Hughes as Lucinda, and Sam Neill as Tony Duff.[3][4][5] References1. ^Austlit - Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd {{Martin Boyd}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucinda Brayford}}{{1940s-novel-stub}}2. ^Boyd, p. 96 3. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081082/ IMDB] 4. ^Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p202 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55462361 |title=LOVELY LUCINDA. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=11 June 1980 |accessdate=8 August 2013 |page=138 Supplement: FREE Your TV Magazine |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 8 : Novels by Martin Boyd|1946 Australian novels|Novels set in Melbourne|Novels adapted into television programs|Female characters in literature|Fictional Australian people|Fictional characters introduced in 1946|Cultural depictions of Nellie Melba |
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