John Galsworthy was an English novelist and dramatist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born into a wealthy family in 1867 and trained as a barrister, though he preferred to travel abroad for the family business. He is best known for his series The Forsyte Saga, which began in 1906 with The Man of Property and criticized the English upper middle class. Galsworthy continued the saga over 15 years with two more novels, In Chancery in 1920 and To Let in 1921.
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John Galsworthy was an English novelist and dramatist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born into a wealthy family in 1867 and trained as a barrister, though he preferred to travel abroad for the family business. He is best known for his series The Forsyte Saga, which began in 1906 with The Man of Property and criticized the English upper middle class. Galsworthy continued the saga over 15 years with two more novels, In Chancery in 1920 and To Let in 1921.
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and dramatist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born into a wealthy family in 1867 and trained as a barrister, though he preferred to travel abroad for the family business. He is best known for his series The Forsyte Saga, which began in 1906 with The Man of Property and criticized the English upper middle class. Galsworthy continued the saga over 15 years with two more novels, In Chancery in 1920 and To Let in 1921.
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John Galsworthy was an English novelist and dramatist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born into a wealthy family in 1867 and trained as a barrister, though he preferred to travel abroad for the family business. He is best known for his series The Forsyte Saga, which began in 1906 with The Man of Property and criticized the English upper middle class. Galsworthy continued the saga over 15 years with two more novels, In Chancery in 1920 and To Let in 1921.
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John Galsworthy (August 14, 1867— January 31, 1933), English novelist and dramatist. Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, the son of John and Blanche Bailey (nee Bartleet) Galsworthy. He attended Harrow and New College, Oxford, training as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1890. However, he was not keen to begin practising law and instead travelled abroad to look after the family's shipping business interests. During these travels he met Joseph Conrad, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, Australia, and the two future novelists became close friends. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson, the wife of one of his cousins. After her divorce the pair eventually married on 23 September 1905 and stayed together until his death in 1933.
As a novelist Galsworthy is chiefly known for his roman fleuve, The Forsyte Saga. The first novel of this vast work appeared in 1906. The Man of Property was a harsh criticism of the upper middle classes, Galsworthy's own background. Galsworthy did not immediately continue it; fifteen years and with them the First World War intervened until he resumed work on the history of the Forsytes with In Chancery (1920) and To Let (1921). Meanwhile he had written a considerable number of novels, short stories, and plays.
