Martin Armstrong

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For information on the financier and securities-fraud defendant, see Martin A. Armstrong.

Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882-1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories. He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He served in World War I in the British Army in France; he was included in the final Georgian Poetry anthology.

He married in 1929 Canadian writer Jessie McDonald after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the step-father of the young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in Conrad Aiken's Ushant.

[edit] Works

  • Exodus (1912) poems
  • Lady Hester Stanhope (1920) biography
  • The Buzzards and other poems (1921)
  • The Puppet Show (1922) stories
  • The Bazaar and Other Stories (1924)
  • Desert, a Legend (1926) novel
  • Stepson (1927) novel
  • The Sleeping Fury (1929) novel
  • The Bird-catcher (1929) poems
  • The Fiery Dive and Other Stories (1929)
  • Collected Poems (1931)
  • General Buntop's Miracle and Other Stories, (1934)
  • A Case of Conscience and Other Tales (1937)
  • Spanish Circus: Charles IV of Spain (1937)
  • Victorian Peepshow (1938) autobiography
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