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John Galsworthy

Male : Novelist and playwright. Nobel Prize for Literature 1932. Married Ada Cooper, the divorced wife of his cousin in 1905, after they had had an affair. Refused a knighthood in 1918
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Kingston Hill, Surrey

Date of Birth : 1867 Date of Death : 1933 Age : 66

Pseudonyms : John Sinjohn

Other Work : Barrister 1890

Education : Harrow & New College, Oxford (Law)
All Titles Heinemann unless stated
Four titles by 'JOHN SINJOHN'
From the Four Winds
(1897 Fisher Unwin) - ss.
Jocelyn
(1898 Duckworth)
Villa Rubein
(1900 Duckworth) (1908 Putnam)
A Man of Devon
(1901 Blackwood) - ss

1904-1910
The Island Pharisees
(1904)
The Man of Property
(1905) (1906 Putnam) - ss
[Filmed in 1949 as "That Forsyte Woman"]
The Country House
(1907) - 1750 copies printed
A Commentary
(1908 Richards, London)
Fraternity
(1909)
Plays : The Silver Box, Joy, Strife
(1909 Duckworth)
The Silver Box
(1910 Duckworth)
Joy
(1910 Duckworth)
Strife
(1910 Duckworth)
Justice
(1910 Duckworth)
A Motley
(1910)

1911-1915
The Patrician
(1911)
The Little Dream
(1911 Duckworth)
For Love of Beasts
(1912 RSPB) - 20pp pamphlet
Moods, Songs & Doggerels
(1912)
The Inn of Tranquility : Studies and Essays
(1912)
The Eldest Son
(1912 Duckworth) (1912 Scribner)
Plays : Vol 2
(1912 Duckworth)
The Pigeon
(1912 Duckworth)
The Slaughter of Animals for Food
(1913 RSPCA) - 24 pp
The Fugitive
(1913 Duckworth)
The Dark Flower
(1913)
The Mob
(1914 Duckworth)
Plays : Vol 3
(1914 Duckworth)
Some Slings and Arrows from John Galsworthy : Selected by Elsie E Morton
(1914 Elkin Mathews Vigo Cabinet Second Series No 27. 1/-)
The Freelands
(1915)
A Bit o'Love
(1915 Duckworth) (1915 Scribner NY)
The Little Man & Other Satires
(1915)

1916-1920
A Sheaf
(1916) - 2000 copies
Beyond
(1917)
Five Tales
(1918) - ss
The Land : A Plea
(1918 Allen & Unwin)
Addresses in America
(1919) (1919 Scribner)
Another Sheaf
(1919)
The Burning Spear
(1919 Chatto & Windus) - by ARPM
Saint's Progress
(1919) (1919 Scribner)
In Chancery
(1920)
The Foundation
(1920 Duckworth) (1920 Scribner)
The Skin Game
(1920 Duckworth)
[Filmed in 1932]
Plays : 4th series
(1920 Duckworth)
Tatterdemalion
(1920) - ss. 4000 copies
Awakening
(1920) - R H Sauter

1921-1922
To Let
(1921)
Six Short Plays
(1921 Duckworth)
The Bells of Peace
(1921 Heffer, Cambridge) - 1000. Pamphlet
The Forsyte Saga
(1922)
The Man of Property
Indian Summer of a Forsyte
In Chancery
Awakening
To Let
Plus : A de Luxe Edition of 550 copies & a Large Paper Edition of 275 signed
-------
The Works
(1922 Scribner NY) - Manaton Edition. 30 vols. 780 signed
Loyalties
(1922 Duckworth)
A Family Man
(1922 Duckworth)
Windows
(1922 Duckworth)
Plays : 5th Series
(1922 Duckworth)

1923-1925
Captures
(1923) - ss
International Thought
(1923 Heffer, Cambridge)
Manaton Collected Edition
(1923-4) - 21 vols
The White Monkey
(1924) + Large Paper Edition 265 signed
The Forest
(1924 Duckworth)
The Little Man
(1924 Duckworth)
Old English
(1924 Duckworth)
[Filmed in 1930]
Memorable Days
(1924 Curwen Press) - 60 copies
On Expression
(1924 English Association pamphlet no 59)
Caravan : The Assembled Tales
(1925) - ss. + Ltd Ed of 1200 & a De Luxe edition of 265 Signed
The Show
(1925 Duckworth)
Plays : 6th Series
(1925 Duckworth)

1926-1930
The Silver Spoon
(1926) + Large Paper Edition 265 signed
Verses New & Old
(1926)
Escape
(1926 Duckworth)
Two Forsyte Interludes
(1927) + De Luxe Edition of 525 signed
Castles in Spain and Other Screeds
(1927) (1927 Scribner)
Swan Song
(1928 Scribners) (1928) + Large Paper Edition 525 signed
The Plight of the Miners
(1928 Society of Friends, Coalfields Distress Committee leaflet No 1) - 4 pp
A Modern Comedy
(1929 - trilogy) + De Luxe Edition of 1000 signed
The White Monkey
The Silver Spoon
Swan Song
Four Forsyte Stories
(1929 Heinemann, London & Fountain Press NY) + 850 signed
Exiled : An Evolutionary Comedy in Three Acts
(1929 Duckworth)
A Rambling Discourse
(1929 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - 400 signed
The Plays of John Galsworthy
(1929 Duckworth) - 1275 signed
The Roof
(1929 Duckworth)
On Forsyte Change
(1930) - ss
Soames and the Flag
(1930) + De Luxe edition of 1025 signed (1930 Scribner) - 680 signed. ss
A Commentary
(1930 Richards Press, London) - 275 signed
Loyalties : A Drama in 3 Acts
(1930 Duckworth) - 315 signed
[Filmed in 1934]
Two Essays on Conrad : With the Story of a Remarkable Friendship
(1930 PP, Freelands) - 25 on Vellum

After 1931
The Creation of Character in Literature
(1931 OUP) - 250 signed
Maid in Waiting
(1931) - + De Luxe Edition of 525 signed and numbered
Flowering Wilderness
(1932) + De Luxe edition of 400 signed & Numbered (1932 Scribner)
(Trans) Carmen : An Opera in 4 Acts (1932 Elkin Mathews & Marrot)
- with Ada Galsworthy. 650 signed
Author and Critic
(1933 House of Books, NY) - 300 numbered
Over the River
(1933) + De Luxe Edition of 375 Signed
(Selected by with A G) Ex Libris (1933 Heinemann)
Candelabra
(1933 Scribner)
The Apple Tree
(1934 Scribner NY) - 1st separate edition
The Collected Poems
(1934 Scribner)
Forsytes : Pendyces and Others
(1935) - ss
End of the Chapter
(1935 - trilogy)
Glimpses and Reflections
(1937)
The Forsyte Saga
(1950 Heinemann) - illustrated edition with drawings by Anthony Gross
The Man of Property
(1964 Ltd Eds Club NY) - 1500 signed by Charles Mozley
Intro by Evelyn Waugh

READING
Sheila Kaye-Smith : John Galsworthy
(1916 Nisbet)
Joseph Conrad : John Galsworthy - An Appreciation
(1922 Canterbury for PP circulation)
H V Marrot : A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy
(1928 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - 210 signed by Galsworthy
H V Marrot : The Life & letters of Galsworthy
(1935 Heinemann)
R H Mottram : For Some We Loved - An Intimate Portrait of Ada and John Galsworthy
(1956 Hutchinson 21/-)
Dudley Barker : The Man of Principle - a View of Galsworthy
(1963)
James Gindin : John Galsworthy
(1987)

See also

Bibliographical Series
Joseph Teodor Jozef Ko Conrad
Everyman Series 501-1000
Alfred Bernhard Nobel