Ejected Gentleman
Norman Page, 7 May 1987
John Galsworthy’s Life and Art: An Alien’s Fortress
by James Gindin.
Macmillan, 616 pp., £35, March 1987,0 333 40812 8 Show More
by James Gindin.
Macmillan, 616 pp., £35, March 1987,
“... reflected that, while kind hearts and simple faith were excellent things in their way, a hint of Norman blood would do no harm. Like Joyce, writing obsessively about the Ireland he had quitted, he achieved fame as a chronicler of the family, the institution from which he fought a long campaign to escape. Slightly inconsistently, he married, after a long ... ”