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The eldest child was Helen Estella Martin (1907–1994), known as Stella Martin. She was to 1984 her father's official biographer, her work appearing in 2017 as Stella Martin Currey edited by James Martin Currey, under the title J.P. Martin: Father of Uncle: A Master in the Great English Nonsense Tradition 1879–1966 ; [ 20 ] and also editor of the three Uncle books that appeared after his death.
J.P. Martin has 19 books on Goodreads with 1960 ratings. J.P. Martin’s most popular book is Uncle (Uncle, #1).
The official biography by Stella Martin Currey, J.P. Martin: Father of Uncle: A Master in the Great English Nonsense Tradition 1879-1966 (written 1984; 2017) includes several deleted chapters and original versions of revised passages from the novels. [DRL] see also: Dogs; Zoo. John Percival Martin. born Scarborough, North Yorkshire: 5 August 1879
J.P. Martin (1879-1966) was born in Yorkshire into a family of Methodist ministers. He took up the family vocation, serving when young as a missionary to a community of South African diamond miners and then, during the First World War, as an Army chaplain in Palestine and Egypt, before returning to minister to parishes throughout the north of ...
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Jun 1, 2009 · After J. P. Martin’s death his daughter Stella compiled enough stories for a further five books, the last of which, Uncle and the Battle for Badgertown, was published in 1973 (price £1.75). For the benefit of those unfamiliar with Uncle I should explain that he is an extremely rich elephant, lord of a vast Manhattan-like castle called Homeward, a collection of interconnected towers most of ...
A complete list of all J.P. Martin's books in order (7 books). Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards.
Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He lives in a labyrinth of skyscrapers connected by water chutes, lifts and railways, and littered with oil lakes, walls of sweets and towers of treacle.
