![]() ![]() Julia also mistakenly believes that Galsworthy infers ‘class’. Immediately we can see Julia’s intention Galsworthy is respectable, the kind of author a proper middle-aged mother should be reading. She fancied it was the sort of book Susan would like to see her mother reading’. This daughter is respectable and serious, so when she goes to visit Julia chooses her reading material with care: ‘It was the Forsyte Saga, and Julia chose it partly because it seemed such a lot for the money, and partly because she had often heard Galsworthy spoken of as a Good Author. Julia, a middle-aged woman who has enjoyed a wild and impecunious life on the stage, is trying to rebuild her relationship with her estranged daughter, Susan. What is interesting is the way that he and his novels are used within other novels to draw characters and demonstrate cultural status.įor example, in Margery Sharp’s The Nutmeg Tree (1937) there are recurring references to Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga. ![]() In a sense it isn’t very surprising – he was such popular and influential novelist that he was a household name to most people. Mr John Galsworthy (1867-1933) has a terrible habit of turning up in other people’s novels in the inter-war period. ![]()
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