Fraternity

Name: Fraternity
Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781836104117

Author: John Galsworthy
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
ISBN: 9781836104117
Published: 2 May 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

social class divide
empathy and compassion
moral responsibility
London society
women’s roles
family relationships
poverty and privilege
social reform
inner conflict
Edwardian era

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Description

Fraternity by John Galsworthy centers on Cecilia Dallison as she confronts questions of identity, empathy, and social duty within London society. Drawn to the struggles of a poor seamstress, she begins to question her privileged world. As relationships deepen and tensions rise, the novel explores class division, moral responsibility, and the limits of compassion.

Author

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) helped shape the English novel's passage from Victorian certainties to twentieth-century doubt. A barrister who turned to literature in his thirties, he wrote with an insider's knowledge of the leisured classes and a reformer's impatience with their complacency. The Forsyte Saga made him famous — a multi-generational study of money, marriage, and the hunger to own.

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