Galsworthy, John
Galsworthy, John ( 1867 – 1933 ),educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford, and trained for the law. But a chance meeting with Conrad , and the strong influence of his future wife, turned him to writing, in which career he was greatly assisted by a long association, beginning in 1900 , with E. Garnett . His first volume of stories, From the Four Winds, appeared in 1897 and in 1898 his first novel, Jocelyn, which he never republished. The first appearance of the Forsyte family was in one of the stories in Man of Devon ( 1901 ). In 1902 he married Ada, his cousin's wife, with whom he had been living for ten years. The Island Pharisees ( 1904 ), a novel revealing his abiding interest in the effects of poverty and the constraints of convention, was much praised and other novels followed including Fraternity ( 1909 ), which attacked the artificial veneer of urban life, and The...
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