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John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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culture · English novelist and playwright (1867–1933) · playwright · writer · novelist · screenwriter · prose writer · also John Galsworthy, John Sinjohn, Galsworthy
Born 14 August 1867 · Died 31 January 1933 · Q82248
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1967· 1 entry
1935· 1 entry
Moves the focus towards the Charwell family, related by marriage to the Forsytes
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1933· 9 entries
Died 1933-01-31.
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“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
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“Public opinion's always in advance of the law.”
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“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
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“The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.”
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“Original: «I know nothing—nobody tells me anything.”
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Commented that despite Galsworthy's distaste for the legal profession, his study of the law left a permanent mark on his fiction, in which there are numerous court scenes, mostly leading to an outcome that does more harm
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“Original: «A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
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“One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.”
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1932· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in <I>The Forsyte Saga</I>.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1932).
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1931· 1 entry
Began what developed into a third and last trilogy, with Maid in Waiting, followed by Flowering Wilderness (1932) and the posthumously published Over the River (1933)
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1930· 1 entry
Published On Forsyte 'Change, a collection of short stories about them, dealing with events before and soon after those recorded in the Saga
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1929· 1 entry
Galsworthy was offered the Order of Merit
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1923· 1 entry
To his regret and his wife's relief (she found the Devon weather bad for her bronchitis)
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1921· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1921–1932).
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1920· 1 entry
Galsworthy had his first big box-office success with The Skin Game, depicting the clash between old and new money, attempted blackmail, and the effect of unrestrained capitalism on the lives of ordinary people
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1919· 3 entries
The American Academy of Arts and Letters invited Galsworthy to give an address at the celebrations marking the centenary of James Russell Lowell
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“I was so truly and deeply fond of him that I seemed not to have a fair share of love left to give to my mother”
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"I was so truly and deeply fond of him that I seemed not to have a fair share of love left to give to my mother"
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1917· 1 entry
Galsworthy wrote a short story, "Indian Summer of a Forsyte" depicting the serene final days of Old Jolyon, the head of the family in The Man of Property
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1916· 1 entry
Sheila Kaye-Smith wrote, "Galsworthy takes his place in modern literature chiefly by virtue of his plays
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1914· 1 entry
Galsworthy had nine plays produced and published five novels
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1912· 1 entry
And 1913 he carried on an effective campaign in the cause of humane slaughtering of animals killed for food
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1904· 3 entries
Ada and Galsworthy kept their relationship secret, because a scandal would have distressed the old man greatly
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Galsworthy's father died, and there was no longer any cause for secrecy about his son's relationship with Ada
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Galsworthy went to Russia, where his father had financial interests, before returning to England, supposedly to resume his career as a barrister
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1897· 1 entry
And did not achieve real success until 1906, when The Man of Property, the first of his novels about the Forsyte family was published
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1895· 1 entry
Galsworthy began a love affair with the wife of his cousin Arthur Galsworthy
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1891· 1 entry
But they had little in common and quickly drifted apart; within a year they had agreed to live separately
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1876· 1 entry
Was sent to Saugeen, a small preparatory school in Bournemouth
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-08-14.
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