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    A Bit O' Love: "A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
    A Bit O' Love: "A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
    A Bit O' Love: "A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
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    A Bit O' Love: "A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."

    By John Galsworthy

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    John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, England, on August 14th 1867 to a wealthy and well established family. His schooling was at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister and being called to the bar in 1890. However, Law was not attractive to him and he travelled abroad becoming great friends with the novelist Joseph Conrad, then a first mate on a sailing ship. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper, the wife of his cousin Major Arthur Galsworthy. The affair was kept a secret for 10 years till she at last divorced and they married on 23rd September 1905. Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he published as John Galsworthy. His first play, The Silver Box in 1906 was a success and was followed by “The Man of Property" later that same year and was the first in the Forsyte trilogy. Whilst today he is far more well know as a Nobel Prize winning novelist then he was considered a playwright dealing with social issues and the class system. Here we publish Villa Rubein, a very fine story that captures Galsworthy’s unique narrative and take on life of the time. He is now far better known for his novels, particularly The Forsyte Saga, his trilogy about the eponymous family of the same name. These books, as with many of his other works, deal with social class, upper-middle class lives in particular. Although always sympathetic to his characters, he reveals their insular, snobbish, and somewhat greedy attitudes and suffocating moral codes. He is now viewed as one of the first from the Edwardian era to challenge some of the ideals of society depicted in the literature of Victorian England. In his writings he campaigns for a variety of causes, including prison reform, women's rights, animal welfare, and the opposition of censorship as well as a recurring theme of an unhappy marriage from the women’s side. During World War I he worked in a hospital in France as an orderly after being passed over for military service. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929, after earlier turning down a knighthood, and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 though he was too ill to attend. John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead on January 31st 1933. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStage Door
    Release dateMay 4, 2017
    ISBN9781787372542
    A Bit O' Love: "A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
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    John Galsworthy

    John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays—like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga—dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.

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      A Bit O' Love - John Galsworthy

      A Bit O' Love by John Galsworthy

      Fourth Series Plays

      John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, England, on August 14th 1867 to a wealthy and well established family.  His schooling was at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister and being called to the bar in 1890.  However, Law was not attractive to him and he travelled abroad becoming great friends with the novelist Joseph Conrad, then a first mate on a sailing ship.

      In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper, the wife of his cousin Major Arthur Galsworthy. The affair was kept a secret for 10 years till she at last divorced and they married on 23 September 1905.

      John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled The Four Winds.  For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn.  It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of The Island Pharisees in 1904 that he published as John Galsworthy.  In this volume we have Villa Rubein  ays and studies. They are the work of a supreme talent at the top of his game. Whilst today he is far more well know as a Nobel Prize winning novelist then he was considered a playwright dealing with social issues and the class system.  He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929, after earlier turning down a knighthood, and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 though he was too ill to attend. John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead on January 31st 1933. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane.

      He is now far better known for his novels, particularly The Forsyte Saga, his trilogy about the eponymous family of the same name. These books, as with many of his other works, deal with social class, upper-middle class lives in particular. Although always sympathetic to his characters, he reveals their insular, snobbish, and somewhat greedy attitudes and suffocating moral codes. He is now viewed as one of the first from the Edwardian era to challenge some of the ideals of society depicted in the literature of Victorian England.

      In his writings he campaigns for a variety of causes, including prison reform, women's rights, animal welfare, and the opposition of censorship as well as a recurring theme of an unhappy marriage from the women’s side. During World War I he worked in a hospital in France as an orderly after being passed over for military service.

      He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929, after earlier turning down a knighthood, and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 though he was too ill to attend.

      John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead on January 31st 1933. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane.

      Index of Contents

      PERSONS OF THE PLAY

      SCENE - A VILLAGE OF THE WEST

      TIME - The Action passes on Ascension Day.

      ACT I -  Strangway’s rooms at Burlacombe’s.  Morning.

      ACT II - Evening

      SCENE I - The Village Inn.

      SCENE II - The same.

      SCENE III - Outside the church.

      ACT III - Evening

      SCENE I - STRANGWAY'S rooms.

      SCENE II - BURLACOMBE'S barn.

      JOHN GALSWORTHY – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      JOHN GALSWORTHY – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      PERSONS OF THE PLAY

      MICHAEL STRANGWAY

      BEATRICE STRANGWAY

      MRS BRADMERE

      JIM BERE

      JACK CREMER

      MRS BURLACOMBE

      BURLACOMBE

      TRUSTAFORD

      JARLAND

      CLYST

      FREMAN

      GODLEIGH

      SOL POTTER

      MORSE, AND OTHERS

      IVY BURLACOMBE

      CONNIE TRUSTAFORD

      GLADYS FREMAN

      MERCY JARLAND

      TIBBY JARLAND

      BOBBIE JARLAND

      A BIT O' LOVE

      ACT I

      It is Ascension Day in a village of the West.  In the low panelled hall-sittingroom of the Burlacombe’s farmhouse on the village green, MICHAEL STRANGWAY, a clerical collar round his throat and a dark Norfolk jacket on his back, is playing the flute before a very large framed photograph of a woman, which is the only picture on the walls.  His age is about thirty-five his figure thin and very upright and his clean-shorn face thin, upright, narrow, with long and rather pointed ears; his dark hair is brushed in a coxcomb off his forehead.  A faint smile hovers about his lips that Nature has made rather full and he has made thin, as though keeping a hard secret; but his bright grey eyes, dark round the rim, look out and upwards almost as if he were being crucified.  There is something about the whole of him that makes him seen not quite present.  A gentle creature, burnt within.

      A low broad window above a window-seat forms the background to his figure; and through its lattice panes are seen the outer gate and yew-trees of a churchyard and the porch of a church, bathed in May sunlight.  The front door at right angles to the window-seat, leads to the village green, and a door on the left into the house.

      It is the third movement of Veracini's violin sonata that STRANGWAY plays.  His back is turned to the door into the house, and he does not hear when it is opened, and IVY BURLACOMBE, the farmer's daughter, a girl of fourteen, small and quiet as a mouse, comes in, a prayer-book in one hand, and in the other a glass of water, with wild orchids and a bit of deep pink hawthorn.  She sits down on the window-seat, and having opened her book, sniffs at the flowers.  Coming to the end of the movement STRANGWAY stops, and looking up at the face on the wall, heaves a long sigh.

      IVY [From the seat]

      I picked these for yu, Mr. Strangway.

      STRANGWAY [Turning with a start]

      Ah!  Ivy.  Thank you. 

      [He puts his flute down on a chair against the

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