Lucinda Brayford

Lucinda Brayford (1946) is a novel by Australian author Martin Boyd.[1]

Lucinda Brayford
1948 US edition
(publ. E.P. Dutton)
AuthorMartin Boyd
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCresset Press (UK)
Publication date
1946
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages546 pp
Preceded byNuns in Jeopardy 
Followed bySuch Pleasure 

Plot summary

This 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
Lucinda Brayford
Based onnovel by Martin Boyd
Written byCliff Green
Directed byJohn Gauci
StarringWendy Hughes
Sam Neill
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes4 x 1 hour
Production
ProducerJohn Gauci
Release
Original networkABC
Original release15 June 1980 (1980-06-15)

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
  1. Austlit - Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd
  2. Boyd, p. 96
  3. IMDB
  4. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996, p.202
  5. "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.
  6. "Martin Boyd - Lucinda Brayford - 1. Changes - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2020-02-03.


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