after the family's shipping business.Duringthese travelshe met Joseph Conrad,then the first mate ofa sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide.Australia.and the two future novelists became close friends.In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper(1864-1956),the wife of his cousin Major Arthur Galsworthy.After her divorceten years later,they married 23 September 1905and stayed together until his death in 1933.Priorto their marriage,they would stay clandestinely in a farmhouse called Wingstone in the village of Manatonon Dartmoor,Devon.[1]From 1908 he took outa long lease on part of the building and made it their regular second home until 1923.[1 From the Four Winds,a collection of short stories,was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897.These and several 10 subsequent works were published under the pen name John Sinjohn,and it would not be until The Island Pharisees(1904) that he would begin publishingunder his own name,probably owingto the death ofhis father.His first full length novel, Jocelyn was published in an edition of 750 under the name of John Sinjohn-he later refused to have it republished.His first play,The Silver Box(1906),-in which the theft ofa prostitute's after the family's shipping business. During these travels he met Joseph Conrad, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, Australia, and the two future novelists became close friends. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper (1864–1956), the wife of his cousin Major Arthur Galsworthy. After her divorce ten years later, they married 23 September 1905 and stayed together until his death in 1933. Prior to their marriage, they would stay clandestinely in a farmhouse called Wingstone in the village of Manaton on Dartmoor, Devon.[1] From 1908 he took out a long lease on part of the building and made it their regular second home until 1923.[1] From the Four Winds, a collection of short stories, was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897. These and several subsequent works were published under the pen name John Sinjohn, and it would not be until The Island Pharisees (1904) that he would begin publishing under his own name, probably owing to the death of his father. His first full length novel, Jocelyn was published in an edition of 750 under the name of John Sinjohn - he later refused to have it republished. His first play, The Silver Box (1906), - in which the theft of a prostitute's 10’