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.

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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...
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.
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