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Was this saga of the middle classes the original soap?
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020408
Author:Andreas Whittam Smith
THE FORSYTES are back in town. They arrived at 9pm yesterday - on ITV. Their creator, John Galsworthy, saw them as an instructive sight - an upper-middle-class family in full plumage. Galsworthy was a clear- sighted commentator on that section of society as it was 100 years ago. He described one of the Forsyte brothers thus: "his mind, where very little took place from morning till night, was the junction of two curiously opposite emotions, a lingering and sturdy satisfaction that he had made his own way and his own fortune, and a sense that a man of his distinction should never be allowed to ...
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