The interpolated sentence '(That was the happiest day of my writing life.)' offers an alternative order to the then-and-then sequence and an excellent generalizing comment giving the other bits of information charged with significance, but Galsworthy chooses rather to stress a dynamic process of becoming begun in 1904 and developing through stages of growth ('originally,' 'continuing,' 'sequel,' 'finished,' 'link between') until the moment of completion in 1920. Actually, three orders of arrangement appear in the note, but the one has been suppressed and relegated to mere parenthetical status. Precise dates, in chronological order, mark the various stages as the 'scheme of development' unfolds in classic linear order. He views the history of the work as a process originating in 19041905 and continuing until 15 August 1920. 15, 1920, the first day of my fiftyfourth year.l Here, with almost paradigmatic clarity, Galsworthy lays bare his underlying assumptions about time and the willingness of his imagination to structure a narrative in terms of time and space. And then in Spain at Malaga, on January l6, 1920, I went straight on to writing the last act of the long drama ('To Let') and finished it at Grove Lodge, Hampstead, on Aug. The link between it and 'To Let' - 'Awakening' - was written in Paris and Biarritz at the end of that year and the first weeks of 1920. Reveille,' and American tour, and the writing of 'The Skin Game,' was not finished until Nov.(That was the happiest day of my writing life.) And almost at once I began 'In Chancery' which, interrupted by Editorship of Â Not until one Sunday in July, I918, did the full scheme of development come to me. Some three years, however, after it was published 1906] I became haunted by the notion of Old Jolyon's Indian Summer which ultimately got itself written in the Spring of 1917. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ġ49 John Galsworthy's The Man of Property 'now in the natural course of things' By David Leon Higdon (Texas Tech University) When John Galsworthy placed the manuscript of The Forsyte Saga in the British Museum, he included a brief note penned 19 August 1920 I originally called 'The Man of Property' by this name, and had no intention of continuing that book with sefuels.

John galsworthy the man of property