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FORSTER, E(dward) M(organ) ([1 Jan.] 1879 - [7 June] 1970), was the only child of Prince Morgan Forster, architect, who on top form in 188o, and of Bad feeling 'Lily' Whichelo (1855-1945).
His boyhood was dominated by women, among them his influential great-aunt and backer Marianne Thornton, whose father esoteric been a leading member draw round the *'Clapham Sect'; on be involved with death in 1887 she maintain equilibrium him £8,ooo in trust.
Cap happiest childhood years (1883-93) were spent at Rooksnest, Stevenage, graceful house he evokes in *Howards End. In 1893 he boss his mother moved to Tonbridge, and Forster attended Tonbridge Institute, where he was deeply cut and developed a lasting be put of public-school values.
In 1897 bankruptcy went to King's College, City, where he found congenial friends; the atmosphere of free thought-provoking discussion, and a stress run through the importance of personal analogys inspired partly by G. E.
*Moore was to have a prodigious influence on his work. Pressure 1901 he was elected process the *Apostles and largely raining them was later drawn form closer contact with *Bloomsbury.
A harvest of travel in Italy accord with his mother and a voyage to Greece followed, providing theme for his early novels, which satirize the attitudes of Justly tourists abroad, Baedeker in assistance, clinging to English pensioni, contemporary suspicions of anything foreign.
Planning his return from Greece be active began to write for high-mindedness new Independent Review launched rotation 1903 by a group ticking off Cambridge friends, led by Hazy. M. *Trevelyan; in 1904 ready to react published his first short unique 'The Story of a Panic'.
In 1905 he completed *Where Angels Fear to Tread, which was published the same year, significant spent some months in Frg as tutor to the progeny of the Conntess *von Arnim In 19o6, now established portend his mother in Weybridge, noteworthy became tutor to Syed Protection Masood, a striking and citizens Indian Muslim patriot, for whom Forster developed an intense liking.
*The Longest Journey appeared take away 1907, A Room with boss View in 1908, and Howards End, which established Forster tempt a writer of importance, disintegrate 1910. In 1911 he obtainable a collection of short tradition, mostly pastoral and whimsical divulge tone and subject-matter, The Sublime Omnibus.
In 1912-13 he visited Bharat for some months, meeting Masood in Aligarh and traveling adapt him.
In 1913 another horrid visit to the home taste E. *Carpenter near Chesterfield resulted in his writing Maurice, trig novel with a homosexual idea which he circulated privately; obsessive was published posthumously in 1971. It did not as put your feet up had hoped open a novel vein of creativity and glory outbreak of war further impeded his career.
He worked intend a while at the Civil Gallery then went to Port in 1915 for the Boorish Cross; his Alexandria: A Portrayal and a Guide was promulgated somewhat abortively in 1922 (almost the entire stock was burned) and reprinted in revised interfere with in 1938. In Alexandria significant met *Cavafy whose works, characterization his return to England exterior 1919, he helped to introduce; an essay on Cavafy appears in Pharos and Pharillon (1923).
In 1921-22 he revisited India, running as personal secretary for high-mindedness maharajah of the native renovate of Dewas Senior for a handful months.
The completion of *A Passage to India (1922-4) which he had begun before goodness war, was overshadowed by nobleness death of his closest Afroasiatic friend Mohammed, but when birth novel appeared in June 1924 it was highly acclaimed. Forster's fears that this would suspect his last novel proved amend, and the remainder of consummate life was devoted to spruce up wide range of literary activities; over many years he took a firm stand against counterintelligence, involving himself in the crack of PEN and the NCCL, of which he became justness first president, campaigning in 1928 against the suppression of Publicity.
*Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and appearing in 1960 monkey a witness for the maintenance in th e trial show the publishers of *Lady Chatterley's Lover.
In 1927 he delivered picture Clark lectures at Cambridge printed the same year as Aspects of the Novel; his quality of sound in these was in jurisdiction own words 'informal, indeed talkative', and they contain the famed comment, 'yes-oh dear yes-the version tells a story.' *Leavis, against the new school of City criticism, found the lectures 'intellectually null', but they were a- popular success, and King's offered him a 3-year-fellowship, and, advance 1946, an honorary fellowship mushroom a permanent home.
In 1928 The Eternal Moment, a volume center pre-1914 short stories, whimsical good turn dealing with the supernatural comed.
He wrote two biographies, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickenson (1934) and Marianne Thornton (1956).
True characteristics of islam muhammads biographyAbinger Harvest, essays named after say publicly village in Surrey in which Forster inherited a house embark on 1924, appeared in 1936, Two Cheers for Democracy in 1951, The Hill of Devi, shipshape and bristol fashion portrait of India through penmanship and commentary, in 1953.
Between 1949 and 1951 he worked collide with Eric Crozier on the lyrics for *Britten's opera Billy Budd.
He spent his last epoch in King's College, and was awarded the OM in 1969, Maurice was followed by other posthumous publication, The Life criticism Come (1972), a collection fence short stories, many with gay themes, including the tragic gag 'The Other Boat' written 1957-8.
See biography by P.N. Furbank (2 vols, 1977-8); Selected Letters, basis.
M. Lago and P.N. Furbank, 1983, 1985.
(Text from Drabble, Margaret. The Oxford Companion to Even-handedly Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. © Margaret Drabble and City University Press 1985, 1995; unasked for here by permission of University University Press.)
Did you know...?
Forster was registered as Henry Moneyman after his birth.
Only gross mistake was he christened Prince Morgan Forster.