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Armstrong, Martin



Martin Armstrong

Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong
(1882-1974)


Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong was a prolific English poet and novelist. He served in the British Army in France during the First World War. He was also the stepfather of celebrated English children’s writer Joan Aiken.

‘Sombrero,’ from The Fiery Dive and other stories (1929), is one of his best known pieces, anthologised by Dorothy L. Sayers in her Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1928-34).


Select Bibliography:


    Poetry:

  1. Exodus (1912)

  2. Thirty New Poems (1918)

  3. The Buzzards and Other Poems (1921)

  4. The Bird-catcher and other poems (1929)

  5. Collected Poems (1931)

  6. Chichester Concert (1944)

  7. Fiction:

  8. The Puppet Show: Stories (1922)

  9. The Foster-Mother (1923)

  10. The Bazaar and Other Stories (1924)

  11. The Goat and Compasses (1925)

  12. Desert: A Legend (1926)

  13. The Stepson (1927)

  14. Sir Pompey and Madame Juno: Stories (1927)

  15. Saint Hercules and Other Stories (1927)

  16. St. Christopher's Day (1928)

  17. Portrait of the Misses Harlowe (1928)

  18. The Sleeping Fury (1929)

  19. The Fiery Dive and Other Stories (1929)

  20. Adrian Glynde, A Novel (1930)

  21. Blind Man's Mark (1931)

  22. The Romantic Adventures of Mr. Darby and of Sarah his Wife (1931)

  23. Lover's Leap (1932)

  24. General Buntop's Miracle and Other Stories (1934)

  25. Venus Over Lannery (1936)

  26. A Case of Conscience and Other Tales (1937)

  27. Miscellaneous:

  28. Lady Hester Stanhope (1920)

  29. [ed.] Jeremy Taylor: A selection from his works (1923)

  30. [trans.] Pedro de Alarcón: The Three-Cornered Hat (1928)

  31. Laughing (1928) essay

  32. The Paintbox: "How and Why" Series (1931)

  33. [ed.] The Fothergill Omnibus (1931)

  34. [ed.] Fifty-four Conceits: A Collection of Epigrams and Epitaphs Serious and Comic (1933)

  35. Spanish Circus: Charles IV of Spain (1937)

  36. Victorian Peepshow: An Autobiography (1938)

  37. [ed.] The Major Pleasures of Life: An Anthology (1943)




Homepages & Online Information:

Project Gutenberg

Wikipedia entry




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