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7 unusual facts about John Galsworthy


Bayswater Road

It is where the fictional upper-middle class Forsyte family live in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga.

Gerald Duckworth and Company

It was important in the development of English literature in the first half of the twentieth century, when it published such writers as Virginia Woolf (Gerald Duckworth's half-sister), W. H. Davies, Anthony Powell, John Galsworthy and D. H. Lawrence.

In Chancery

In Chancery is the second novel of the Forsyte Saga trilogy by John Galsworthy and was originally published in 1920, some fourteen years after The Man of Property.

Indian summer

In the UK, observers knew of the American usage from the mid-19th Century onwards, and The Indian Summer of a Forsyte is the metaphorical title of the 1918 second volume of The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.

Meggie Albanesi

She enjoyed a successful theatre career, starring in plays such as John Galsworthy's The First and the Last opposite Owen Nares.

Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet

He was educated at Harrow, where he was a contemporary of Stanley Baldwin and of John Galsworthy.

That Forsyte Woman

It is an adaptation of The Man of Property, the first novel in The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.


Bijou Theatre

It was one of three theatres which hosted the premiere season of the musical Fancy Free, but primarily it presented plays by many writers including Sacha Guitry, John Galsworthy, A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Leslie Howard, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Luigi Pirandello, Graham Greene, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan and Sean O’Casey.

C. Buddingh'

He translated many English books into Dutch, including The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy and A Clockwork Orange, together with his son Wiebe.

Declaration of Reasonable Doubt

John Galsworthy (1867–1933, English novelist and playwright, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature. Best known for The Forsyte Saga and its sequels): Described Oxfordian J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare Identified as "the best detective story" he had ever read.

Hallie Flanagan

While there, she met some of the most influential figures in theatre including John Galsworthy, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Edward Gordon Craig and Lady Gregory.

Harold Chapin

A true man of the theatre, he worked as an actor (appearing extensively in the West End and in the original productions of What Every Woman Knows by J.M. Barrie and Strife by John Galsworthy), director and stage manager, and was closely associated with Harley Granville Barker.


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