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Forsyte (other)
Forsyte is included in: * ''The Forsyte Saga'', a series of British novels * USS Irene Forsyte (IX-93) USS ''Irene Forsyte'' (IX-93) was a three masted schooner originally built as ''MacLean Clan'' which was briefly converted to a Q-ship, of the United States Navy. In commercial service The three-masted schooner ''MacLean Clan'' was built in 1920 ..., an ill-fated North American schooner See also * Forsyth (other) * Forsythe (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forsyte Saga
''The Forsyte Saga'', first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large upper-middle-class English family that is similar to Galsworthy's. Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, its members are keenly aware of their status as "new money". The main character, the solicitor and connoisseur Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions, but that does not succeed in bringing him pleasure. Separate sections of the saga, as well as the lengthy story in its entirety, have been adapted for cinema and television. ''The Man of Property'', the first book, was adapted in 1949 by Hollywood as ''That Forsyte Woman'', starring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Robert Young. In 1967, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Irene Forsyte (IX-93)
USS ''Irene Forsyte'' (IX-93) was a three masted schooner originally built as ''MacLean Clan'' which was briefly converted to a Q-ship, of the United States Navy. In commercial service The three-masted schooner ''MacLean Clan'' was built in 1920 by MacLean Construction Company, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia for H.W. Adams of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Built at the end of the era of three masted merchant schooners, she was one of two schooners built by MacLean construction in 1920, the other being the auxiliary tern schooner ''Cote Nord''. ''Maclean Clan'' worked in the coastal trade into the 1930s. She had an auxiliary engine installed in 1926 and was sold and re-registered in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1929. In the early 1930s she was purchased by Captain Thomas Antle. Renamed ''Irene Myrtle'', the schooner barely survived the tough trade conditions of that time and was in poor condition by the end of the decade. Given a new lease on life by the increased shipping traffic provoked by the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forsyth (other)
Forsyth may refer to: Places Oceania * Forsyth Island, Queensland, Australia, one of the West Wellesley Islands (aka Forsyth Islands) * Forsyth Island, Tasmania, Australia * Forsyth Island (New Zealand), in the outer Marlborough Sounds of South Island * Lake Forsyth, New Zealand * Forsyth Bluff, Australia, see West Cape Howe National Park * Forsyth Peak, in the Cruzen Range of Victoria Land United States * Forsyth, Georgia, a city * Forsyth, Illinois, a village * Forsyth, Missouri, a city * Forsyth, Montana, a city * Forsyth County, North Carolina * Forsyth County, Georgia * Forsyth Township, Michigan * Forsyth Street, Manhattan, New York * Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia * James and Mary Forsyth House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places People * Forsyth (surname), a list of people with the surname Forsyth * Forsyth (given name), a list of people with the given name Forsyth * Clan Forsyth, a Scottish clan Other * The Forsyth Institute, an oral health research inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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