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.
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press.
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living writers into two...
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...
Textual Production
Josephine Tey
She said the book was quite illiterate; only adapting John Galsworthy
could be worse.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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She worked on contract, which meant collaborating with other writers. This was hard since she remained based in Inverness.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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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.
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In another letter he added advice: always remember to know at...
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...
politics
May Sinclair
It was established to encourage friendship and good-will among authors; John Galsworthy
was elected as its first president.
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...
Occupation
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's...
Occupation
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
PEN
stood for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists. Forty-five writers and journalists attended the dinner: they all became PEN's first members. John Galsworthy
served as president until 1933.
In her autobiography she explained the genesis of this book. Robert Hale
, then manager of Jarrolds
, said he was looking for a war book that was not full of mud, blood and obscenity...
Literary responses
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Galsworthy
's welcoming preface concludes: Human and interesting from page to page; broad, just and tolerant; above all, warm and breathing, it makes you think. Yes, it makes you think.
Galsworthy, John, and Gladys Henrietta Schütze. “Foreword”. Mrs. Fischer’s War, p. 7.
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The Times Literary Supplement...
Textual Features
Vita Sackville-West
Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf,
Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, William Morrow.
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written on 26 March 1923, was an invitation to join the PEN club
. Sackville-West did not yet know Woolf at all well, since she supposed Woolf...
Literary responses
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
received personal congratulations on her stories from Sir Edmund Gosse
and John Galsworthy
. Among reviewers the only unfavourable voice was that of Rebecca West
. S. P. B. Mais
in the Daily Express...
Timeline
February 1891: Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein founded...
Building item
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...
Building item
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),...
