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.
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...
Textual Production
Cicely Hamilton
This magazine aimed to reach the cultured public, and bring before it in a convincing and moderate form, the case for the Enfranchisement of Women.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press.
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.