Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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
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Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press.
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Reception
Arnold Bennett
This novel received immediate praise in the press, though sales of the small print-run took a long time to pick up. Enthusiastic reviewers included such different writers as Walter de la Mare
(in the Times...
Literary responses
Arnold Bennett
Margaret Drabble
began work on her biography of AB
(published in 1974) in a partisan spirit, because she felt Bennett was seriously undervalued. She was, she wrote, surprised to find she enjoyed and respected...
Reception
Elizabeth Bowen
Cyril Connolly
expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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...
Charles Evans at Heinemann
sent The Happy Highways to John Galsworthy
, who read it with appreciation. Galsworthy observed by letter that [t]he authoress has done what none of the torrential novelists of the last...
Textual Production
Sheila Kaye-Smith
She followed this in 1916 with a study, John Galsworthy, for the Writers of the Day series.
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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...
February 1891: Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein founded...
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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,...
Women writers item
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...
National or international item
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...
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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),...
