The phrase "about her forebears" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's ancestors or family history.
Example: "She often shares stories about her forebears, highlighting their struggles and achievements."
Alternatives: "regarding her ancestors" or "concerning her lineage".
This isn't simply influence or homage, though Oswald is generous about crediting her forebears.
She tells stories about the guys who broke her heart in college, and after college, and about her skinflint forebears, who supposedly sold George Washington the boats to make his famous crossing of the Delaware.
Carla L. Peterson started out in 2001 with only a few bits of information about her New York forebears – the name of a great-grandfather and a family legend about a "white Haitian".
Temkin is candid about how the tastes of her forebears at MOMA account for a paucity of works by de Kooning (only four paintings), the poetic and deft Bradley Walker Tomlin (two), and the most enduring talent of the second generation, Joan Mitchell (just one).
What might have been perilously close to a heartwarming tale about someone discovering the complexities of her forebears is thus choreographed into an elaborate sequence of steps, this way and that, as past and future are gathered together.
Her Jewish heritage leads her to seek out men whose forebears would have kept her forebears out of their country clubs.
Listening to her speak in public about herself and Bloomsbury, it was distressing to witness the tension between her pride in her forebears and the pain that these memories caused.
Many of her forebears, she writes, were "almost famous," including two congressmen and a naval surgeon.
In fact, her sympathy is for more than just her forebears.
Yet having just bought an apartment on Henry Street makes her feel eerily close to her forebears.
