John Galsworthy

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Standard Name: Galsworthy, John
JG was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since its story begins forty years before the first in the series appeared. In 1921 JG became first president of the PEN Club (later PEN International ) founded by Catharine Amy Dawson Scott and Violet Hunt , and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications G. B. Stern
The latter title dates from the first US edition, 1925. The Virago edition of 1987 has an introduction by Julia Neuberger . This work (dedicated to John Galsworthy ) was followed by A Deputy was...
Education Viola Meynell
After leaving school at sixteen, VM read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot , Dickens , George Meredith , Arnold Bennett , John Galsworthy , and Thomas Hardy .
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
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Family and Intimate relationships Cecily Mackworth
CM later wrote that the search for love was interwoven with many events of her life; she felt her judgement was poor in matters of the heart, and connected this with the loss of her...
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Tree
Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Hunt
VH met Ford Madox Hueffer , later Ford Madox Ford, at a London dinner party held by John Galsworthy .
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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Friends, Associates Frances Bellerby
She attended seriously to becoming a writer, and with this in view attended the inaugural meeting of the Young PEN Club on 4 October 1928, where she was introduced to John Galsworthy .
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Friends, Associates Gladys Henrietta Schütze
On her first attendance at PEN , taken there by an American friend, Sarah MacConnell , she met Catharine Amy Dawson Scott (whom she took to at once), Galsworthy (whose work she much admired), Roma Wilson
Friends, Associates Constance Garnett
Their friends included several notable writers: D. H. Lawrence , Joseph Conrad , and John Galsworthy .
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. The Garnetts: A Literary Family. University of Texas.
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Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage
Friends, Associates Evelyn Sharp
She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson , of Hertha Ayrton , physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould . These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking...
Intertextuality and Influence Kate O'Brien
Lorna Reynolds and Eavan Boland liken this novel to the work of John Galsworthy , as it is the saga of several generations of an Irish family building a business and growing in wealth.
Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv.
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Intertextuality and Influence Gladys Henrietta Schütze
As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.
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She was reassured by the ordinary appearance of Effie Adelaide Rowlands (pen-name...
Leisure and Society Ann Bridge
AB says that after emerging into what she calls, with reference to John Galsworthy , the almost Forsyte-ian stodginess of rich upper-middle-class London, she gradually broke away on my own account into more entertaining circles...
Literary responses Noel Streatfeild
NS 's first fan letter came from John Galsworthy , to say the book was a tremendously good first novel and so amusing.
Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961.
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In another letter he added advice: always remember to know at...
Literary responses Flora Macdonald Mayor
Reviewers called this apparently unreadable,
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
4045 (10 October 1980): 1142
and judged its quality so poor that [it is] hard to believe it was written by FMM at all.
Hill, Susan, and Flora Macdonald Mayor. The Third Miss Symons, Virago, 1980, p. n.p.
prelims
Rebecca West was the...

Timeline

February 1891
Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein founded the Independent Theatre Society in London to promote literary rather than commercial plays, and the new drama in particular.
1914
My Husband Still: A Working Woman's Story, a novel from Helen Hamilton that is based on an actual woman's account of her marriage, appeared with an introduction by John Galsworthy .
3 August 1916
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish nationalist Roger Casement , formerly Sir Roger, was executed for treason at Pentonville Prison in London for attempting to smuggle a shipment of German arms to Ireland.
January 1921
The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious feminist discussion, ceased publication in London.
5 October 1921
The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), a world association of authors, was founded in London by writers C. A. Dawson Scott and Violet Hunt .
June 1925
The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts Guild to promote socialist drama and performance.
4 October 1928
The Young PEN Club , designed for beginning writers, held its inaugural meeting, chaired by John Galsworthy ; also present were E. M. Forster and the young Frances Parker (soon to be Bellerby) .