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The Forsyte Saga · Chapter
Dedication explained
The author dedicates The Forsyte Saga to his wife, acknowledging her encouragement, sympathy, and criticism as essential to his development as a writer.
What happens
The author dedicates The Forsyte Saga to his wife, acknowledging her encouragement, sympathy, and criticism as essential to his development as a writer.
Key passages
“To my wife I dedicate the Forsyte Saga in its entirety, believing it to be of all my works the least unworthy of one without whose encouragement, sympathy, and criticism I could never have become even such a writer as I am.”
The author dedicates the entire Forsyte Saga to his wife, considering it the most deserving of his works for her role in his writing career.
The dedication expresses gratitude for the wife's support and influence on the author's work.