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No part in book
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020422
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IN THEIR respective dramatisations of the The Forsyte Saga, both the BBC and ITV have made the marital rape by Soames Forsyte a pivotal scene.
Yet in the original series of books, by John Galsworthy, the episode is never described and readers are left with only oblique references.
In the 1922 book, A Man of Property, Soames is described rattling the door of his wife's bedroom and finding that, for once, she has left the door unlocked.
The story cuts to the following morning as he reflects on "her terrible smothered sobbing" .
John Milton Whatmore, chairman of MediaWatch UK, said: " I ...
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