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J.Galsworthy’s biographers:

There were a lot of biographers who were interested in Galsworthy‟s life and letters. We can include to this rank, Leon Schalit, Herman Ould, H.V.Marrot, R.V. Mottram, etc. The observation of his biographer‟s works gives us an opportunity to have a deep investigation of Galsworthy‟s life, intention and inspiration of writing, the period of time and the environment where he lived.

Leon Schalit‟s biographical work, which is called “A Survey”, is not critical work; it just relates different stories from Galsworthy‟s novels. Also, there is not any kind of novel insights.

Then, another biographer of Galsworthy is Herman Ould, who also was the secretary of the PEN, wrote his work in 1934, nearly after the death of Galsworthy. The biographical work has many interesting details about Galsworthy‟s role in PEN club. Also there is an entire chapter which is devoted to religion and “mortality”. “As a young man, and in his early mid-dle years…was so absorbed in the phenomena of social injustices, that religion occupied a subordinate place in his mind”. (9, p.208)

H.V.Marrot is also one of the writers, who deeply influenced on Galsworthy‟s life. His writing can be considered only a standard biography, which was written under the supervision of Galsworthy‟s wife-Ada. It may be thought to be “the official life of Galsworthy”. H.V.Marrot‟s work is called “The Life and the Letters of John Galsworthy” (1935).

Unlike others, Dudley Barker highlighted John Galsworthy‟s personal life, especially Ada‟s first marriage to his cousin, Arthur Galsworthy. Also Dudley Barker showed historical events, their effects and John Galsworthy‟s reactions, points of view to the happenings. So, the World War and the results of it influenced Galsworthy and are reflected in his literary ac-tivity. D.Barker did not speak about the author‟s religious views, he just ignored them. In his time, in regards to this historical pointed to Galsworthy‟s remarks about The War and its in-fluence to the religion: “Great War is a death of Christianity”. (4, p.182)

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Catherine Dupré also was one of the Galsworthy‟s biographers. Resting on the words of G.Fisher, who studied together with Galsworthy at New College, Dupré wrote: «Он был высоким, стройным, хорошо сложенным и необыкновенно привлекательным; должен сказать, что он к тому же был самым хорошо одетым молодым человеком в колледже...

Он не принадлежал ни к одному из интеллектуальных кружков, не читал своих сочинений в «Обществе эссеистов» и не участвовал в научных дискуссиях. Он был замкнутым, говорил мало, тихим голосом, казался впечатлительным, и в то же время ироничным, и даже (как мы тогда считали) несколько циничным зрителем происходящего вокруг него». (32, p.22-23) She wrote, especially, about the relationships between the writer and his sister, she got into the diaries of Lillian Galsworthy. She did not only speak about the relations between sister and brother, but also implied on the social prob-lems, which they confronted: “Whether alone, without the constant spur and stimulation of Lillian‟s active mind, John would have arrived at what was then unconventional and generally unacceptable, is doubtful”. (2, p.34) Dupre is one of the writers, who tried to give a descrip-tion of a philosophical development in the views of Galsworthy; so his philosophy was devel-oping from religion towards humanistic view of life.