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.
Black-and-white photo of John Galsworthy, full-face, with a serious expression, wearing a dark jacket and a polka-dotted tie.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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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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...
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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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.
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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...
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
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...
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...
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.
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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.
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...
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...
politics May Sinclair
It was established to encourage friendship and good-will among authors; John Galsworthy was elected as its first president.
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...
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.
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Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961.
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In another letter he added advice: always remember to know at...

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