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Statistics Concerning Printings of Galsworthy's Novels in Britain, Germany, Austria and France Appendix: Statistics Concerning Printings of Galsworthy's Novels in Britain, Germany, Austria and France UNITED KINGDOM Mr Charles Pick, Managing Director, William Heinemann, and Mr R. Davies, Sales Manager, Penguin Books, provided the following information and figures. It is quite astonishing to note the number of copies of Galsworthy novels printed in recent years, compared with similar figures for other contemporary writers. On 11 November 1970, Mr Pick wrote: We have always had The Forsyte Saga, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter (the Forsyte trilogies) in print. Up to the time of the first showing of the TV series we were selling a steady 2,000/2,500 copies a year of the Forsyte Saga. Since 1 January 1967 we have sold 107,000 copies and 42,000 copies of A Modern Comedy and 28,000 copies of End of the Chapter. In addition Penguin have sold 1.8 million copies of the nine individual titles (we did not give them the trilogy rights). As a result of the increase in the reading of the Forsyte Chronicles, we have now put back into print as single volumes the following titles: Beyond, The Country House, The Dark Flower, Fraternity, The Island Pharisees, The Man of Property and Saint's Progress. I understand in other countries where the TV films were being shown, sales of the Forsyte Chronicles have been just as dramatic and all publishers seem to comment on the fact that young people have taken to reading Galsworthy again. 205 206 Appendix Penguin books (dates in brackets are those of the first Penguin editions) Title 1967 1968 1969 1970 Man of Property (1951) 103 679 126 237 39 407 22 836 In Chancery (1962) 85 373 103 365 22 959 13 983 To Let (1967) 84 241 85 490 18 462 13 326 The White Monkey (1967) 63 398 78 781 25 551 13 491 The Silver Spoon (1967) 62 245 74 808 20 867 12 615 Swan Song (1967) 61 141 71 834 23 241 12 806 Maid in Waiting (1968) 88 870 21 619 11 364 Flowering Wilderness (1968) 85 067 16 000 8 463 Over the River (1968) 84 019 16 094 9 568 Annual total 460 077 808 471 204 200 118 407 Packs containing all nine novels 15 000 10 000 6 000 GERMANY AND AUSTRIA Herr Hans W. Polak, Managing Director of Paul Zsolnay Verlag (Vienna and Hamburg) provided the following information in a letter of 6 July 1973: The total sales of The Forsyte Saga in the German language are 1,600,000 copies between 1925 and 1972. Approximately between 1955 and 1972 the average sales of the trade edition were 800 to 1, 000 copies per year, but since September 1972 and June 1973 the sales of the new edition were, I am glad to say, approximately 940,000 copies. FRANCE The publishers Calmann-Levy sold approximately 400,000 copies of La Dynastie des Forsytes, between October and December 1970. Notes Notes refer to the following editions of John Galsworthy's works: Jocelyn, by John Sinjohn (London: Duckworth, 1898) The Forsyte Saga (London: Heinemann, 1950) A Modern Comedy (London: Heinemann, 1948) End of the Chapter (London: Heinemann, 1948) Grove Edition of the other novels (London: Heinemann, 1927-51) The Plays ofJohn Galsworthy (London: Duckworth, 1936) For Galsworthy's short stories, essays and poems the standard Heinemann edition has been used. The thirty·volume Manaton Edition of Galsworthy's works, published by Heinemann between 1923 and 1936, is referred to only for its prefaces. The standard biography, The Life and Letters ofJohn Galsworthy (London: Hejnemann, 1935), by H. V. Marrot, will be referred to in the notes as 'Marrot', followed by the relevant page reference. NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. Marrot, p. 136. 2. There were six editions of The Country House between 1907 and 1914, and four of The Patrician between 1911 and 1919. Fraternity seems to have been less widely read. 3. The Forsyte Saga, p. 1036. 4. Edward Garnett, Letters from John Galsworthy 1900-1932 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934) pp. 210-11. 5. 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown' in Collected Essays, vol. I (London: Hogarth Press, 1966) pp. 320, 327-30. 6. The prefaces to the Manaton Edition of Galsworthy's works, which were important texts, were by then available, but Lawrence does not appear to have read them. Marrot's book, with its vital information on the man and his work, came out seven years later. 7. In Scrutinies (1928), reprinted in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence (London: Heinemann, 1936) pp. 539-56. See D. H. Lawrence, Selected Essays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) pp. 217-30. 8. Ibid., p. 229. 9. J. Guiguet, Virginia Woolf et son oeuvre (Paris: Didier, 1967) p. 34. 10. F. R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 233. 207 208 Notes 11. Good examples are to be found in The Pelican Guide to English Literature, vol. VI, pp. 99, 104; vol. vn, pp. 212, 216, 284, 372. In The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1967) R. C. Churchill does not say a word about Galsworthy's novels. 12. On the other hand, The Times, following his death, could not forgive him his independent attitude to religion and morality. W. R. Inge, in the preface to The Post- Victorians (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1933), denied him any spiritual life. 13. R. Church, Growth of the English Novel (London: Methuen, 1951); A. S. Collins, English Literature of the Twentieth Century (London: London University Tutorial Press, 1951); R. A. Scott-James, Fifty Years of English Literature 1900-1950 (London: Longmans, 1951). NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE: GALSWORTHY AND HIS FAMILY BACKGROUND 1. Marrot, p. 796. 2. Leon Schalit, John Galsworthy: A Survey (London: Heinemann, 1929) p. 20. 3. 'A Portrait' in A Motley, pp. 1-29; Caravan, pp. 135-50. 4. Marrot, p. 58. NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO: GALSWORTHY'S LEGAL TRAINING AND BACKGROUND IN LITERATURE 1. Marrot, p. 181. 2. Marrot, pp. 33, 35, 45, 64, 65, 568. Raymond Las Vergnas, in his introduction to The Book of Snobs, by W. M. Thackeray (Paris: Aubier, 1945) p. 45, shows its influence on Galsworthy, emphasising how Thackeray's message was given confirmation in The Silver Spoon, ch. 13. 3. Marrot, pp. 83, 84, 88, 97, 116-17. 4. Ibid., P- 131. 5. Ibid., p. 61. 6. Ibid., p. 136. See also Beyond, Mana ton Edition, pp. x, xi. 7. Marrot, p. 99. 8. Garnett, Lettersfromjohn Galsworthy, p. 51. 9. Ibid., pp. 5, 30, 36, 177. 10. Addresses in America, p. 1, and unpublished reading list recommended by Galsworthy to his cousin Frank. On Henry James, see Marrot, pp. 115, 130, 217, 317, 326, 772. 11. Garnett, Lettersfromjohn Galsworthy, p. 218. On D. H. Lawrence, see also ibid., p. 433. 12. Marrot, p. 779. 13. Fraternity, Manaton Edition, p. xi. 14. Five Tales, Manaton Edition, p. x. When he testified to the Parliamentary Commission on Censorship, Galsworthy gave a list of censored plays known to him (Marrot, p. 218). NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE: ASPECTS OF GALSWORTHY'S LIFE 1. Rudolf Sauter, Galsworthy the Man: An Intimate Portrait by his Nephew (London: Peter Owen, 1967) p. 136. Notes 209 2. Mabel E. Reynolds, Memories ofJohn Galsworthy by his Sister (London: R. Hale, 1936) p. 18. 3. Marrot, p. 45. 4. Ibid., p. 63. 5. Sauter, Galsworthy the Man, p. 54. 6. Ada Galsworthy, Over the Hills and Far Away (1937) p. 14. 7. Sauter, Galsworthy the Man, pp. 20, 21, 45, 46. 8. Marrot, p. 63; Reynolds, Memon·es ofjohn Galsworthy, pp. 28, 29. 9. The Inn of Tranquillity, November 1933 edition, pp. 148, 149. 10. Dudley Barker, The Man of Prindple: A View of John Galsworthy (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 64. 11. Reynolds, Memon·es ofJohn Galsworthy, pp. 534-6. 12. Marrot, pp. 33, 35, 225, 416, 534-6, 562, 572. 13. Sauter, Galsworthy the Man, p. 25. 14. Reynolds, Memon·es ofJohn Galsworthy, p. 14. 15. Marrot, p. 532. 16. Ibid., p. 585. 17. Sauter, Galsworthy the Man, p. 16. 18. Marrot, p. 100. 19. Ibid., p. 101. 20. Ibid., p. 101. 21. Ibid., pp. 215-16. There is no indication of date, but it is probably from the later years of his life. 22. Margaret Morris, My Galsworthy Story (London: Peter Owen, 1967). 23. Rudolf Sauter and R. H. Mottram confirmed to me Marrot's categorical assertions. 24. His dilemma, and the whole situation, are described with remarkable accuracy in the third episode of The Dark Flower. 25. Marrot, p. 408. 26. Ibid., pp. 411-12. 27. Ibid., photograph facing p. 426. 28. Ibid., p. 426. 29. Ibid., p. 427. 30. Ibid., p. 428. 31. In summer 1917, he wrote an article m the Observer defending 800 conscientious objectors. 32. Marrot, p. 443. 33. Ibid., p. 443. 34. Marrot, Bibliography of the Works ofJohn Galsworthy (London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928) p. 35. 35. Marrot, pp. 645-50, or Sauter, Galsworthy the Man, pp. 136-42. NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR: GALSWORTHY'S EMOTIONAL NATURE AND ARTISTIC TASTES 1. Sauter, Galsworthy the Man, p. 39. 2. Neither his heroes nor his heroines are renowned for their faithfulness. 3. Galsworthy's affection for his nephew did not prevent him from helping numerous distant relatives and the villagers of Manaton and later Bury. 210 Notes He is like the Squire in The Country House, but without the desire to order people about. See Marrot, pp. 581, 591. 4.
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