Forsyte family
Forsyte family, fictional upper-middle-class English family created by John Galsworthy in his novel sequence The Forsyte Saga and further treated in A Modern Comedy (1929), a trilogy set in the post-World War I era and consisting of The White Monkey (1924), The Silver Spoon (1926), and Swan Song (1928).
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.
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Article Title:
Forsyte family
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
10 May 2010
Access Date:
November 14, 2026