# Juley Forsyte — The Forsyte Saga character guide

> Juley Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Juley, Aunt Juley, Aunts Juley

**First appearance:** 0006-part-i-i-at-home-at-old-jolyon-s

## Snapshot

One of Timothy's spinster sisters, a gentle, gossipy fixture of the green drawing-room whose tenderhearted meddling keeps the family's news circulating.

## Who they are

Juley lives out her days in Timothy's household, where the family's engagements, marriages, and births are received as events and its scandals are absorbed through tea-table talk. Her softness and appetite for other people's business make her both a comfort and a conduit, the sort of aunt through whom the Forsytes learn what they are supposed to think. She matters because the saga's social texture lives in rooms like hers, where the family's formidable tenacity is knitted stitch by stitch.

## In the story

### [James at Large](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-vi-james-at-large)

Discusses the news with James and Hester, worried about Timothy's reaction.

### [Plans of the House](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-viii-plans-of-the-house)

Visits June unannounced, expressing concern about Bosinney's thinness and the nickname 'The Buccaneer.' She mentions Timothy's opinion that Irene should go out more.

### [Death of Aunt Ann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-ix-death-of-aunt-ann)

Overwhelmed by grief, prostrated by the blow of Ann's death.

### [Drive with Swithin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-ii-iii-drive-with-swithin)

Aunt Juley is referenced as the recipient of Swithin's later account of the drive; she is nervous and thin.

### [Afternoon at Timothy's](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-ii-vii-afternoon-at-timothy-s)

Hosts the gathering; later, in her room, she worries about Old Jolyon and wishes to be of use to him.

### [The Trial](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-v-the-trial)

Present at Timothy's when James recounts the trial.

### [Soames Breaks the News](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-vi-soames-breaks-the-news)

Aunt Juley informs Soames that Mrs. MacAnder saw Irene walking in Richmond Park with Bosinney.

### [At Timothy's](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-i-at-timothy-s)

One of the 'Old Things' at Timothy's; Soames visits her and Aunt Hester to share news of the funeral.

### [On Forsyte 'Change](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-xii-on-forsyte-change)

Aunt Juley hosts the gathering, tries to smooth over disagreements, and makes awkward remarks about pictures and the Boers.

### [Timothy Stays the Rot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-ii-xi-timothy-stays-the-rot)

Hosts the family gathering and shares gossip about Irene being seen in Paris.

### [Passing of an Age](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-x-passing-of-an-age)

Aunt Juley meets Annette; compares her to Irene; mentions Timothy's fear of Fashoda; asks about a 'dear little' child.

### [Suspended Animation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-iii-xi-suspended-animation)

Engages in conversation about Val's future and later organizes a secret toast to Soames's wife.

### [The Mausoleum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_forsyte_saga_se/chapters/part-i-iv-the-mausoleum)

Recalled in the context of the preserved drawing-room and her album of pressed seaweed.

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