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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1930, p. 7. 7 |
| 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... |
| 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. qtd. in Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961. 22 |
| 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. |
| politics | May Sinclair | It was established to encourage friendship and good-will among authors; John Galsworthy
was elected as its first president. |
| politics | Violet Hunt | During the summer and autumn of 1921, VH
helped her friend and colleague C. A. Sappho Dawson Scott
with the establishment of the P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), originally a writers' association designed to... |
| 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... |
| 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, 1978. 78 |
| Reception | Storm Jameson | 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 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, 1985. 47 |
| Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, 11 Dec. 1919, p. 750. 750 |
| Textual Production | Sheila Kaye-Smith | She followed this in 1916 with a study, John Galsworthy, for the Writers of the Day series. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Production | Penelope Mortimer | PM
also wrote for the cinema. She adapted Galsworthy
's The Apple Tree as a screenplay for Warner Brothers
, but it was decades before the film was made. In June 1972, at the request... |
| Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | 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... |
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