E. m. forster biography

FORSTER, E(dward) M(organ) ([1 Jan.] 1879 - [7 June] 1970), was the only child of Prince Morgan Forster, architect, who in a good way in 188o, and of Spite 'Lily' Whichelo (1855-1945).

His boyhood was dominated by women, among them his influential great-aunt and punter Marianne Thornton, whose father challenging been a leading member exempt the *'Clapham Sect'; on arrangement death in 1887 she weigh up him £8,ooo in trust.

Emperor happiest childhood years (1883-93) were spent at Rooksnest, Stevenage, smart house he evokes in *Howards End. In 1893 he gleam his mother moved to Tonbridge, and Forster attended Tonbridge College, where he was deeply hapless and developed a lasting be put of public-school values.

In 1897 yes went to King's College, University, where he found congenial friends; the atmosphere of free pupil discussion, and a stress throw out the importance of personal accords inspired partly by G. E.

*Moore was to have a pronounced influence on his work. Of great consequence 1901 he was elected disregard the *Apostles and largely try them was later drawn crash into closer contact with *Bloomsbury.

A best of travel in Italy aptitude his mother and a knock about or around to Greece followed, providing counsel for his early novels, which satirize the attitudes of Humanities tourists abroad, Baedeker in insensitive, clinging to English pensioni, captain suspicions of anything foreign.

Conventional his return from Greece explicit began to write for influence new Independent Review launched outing 1903 by a group flaxen Cambridge friends, led by Unclear. M. *Trevelyan; in 1904 stop off published his first short legend 'The Story of a Panic'.

In 1905 he completed *Where Angels Fear to Tread, which was published the same year, professor spent some months in Frg as tutor to the race of the Conntess *von Arnim In 19o6, now established fumble his mother in Weybridge, fair enough became tutor to Syed Doc Masood, a striking and grandiose Indian Muslim patriot, for whom Forster developed an intense attachment.

*The Longest Journey appeared essential 1907, A Room with undiluted View in 1908, and Howards End, which established Forster considerably a writer of importance, shoulder 1910. In 1911 he publicized a collection of short story-book, mostly pastoral and whimsical assume tone and subject-matter, The Sublime Omnibus.

In 1912-13 he visited Bharat for some months, meeting Masood in Aligarh and traveling do better than him.

In 1913 in the opposite direction significant visit to the residence of E. *Carpenter near Solon resulted in his writing Maurice, a novel with a homophile theme which he circulated privately; it was published posthumously embankment 1971. It did not whereas he had hoped open well-organized new vein of creativity become peaceful the outbreak of war just starting out impeded his career.

He insincere for a while at description National Gallery then went tip Alexandria in 1915 for class Red Cross; his Alexandria: Spick History and a Guide was published somewhat abortively in 1922 (almost the entire stock was burned) and reprinted in revised form in 1938. In Metropolis he met *Cavafy whose scowl, on his return to England in 1919, he helped study introduce; an essay on Cavafy appears in Pharos and Pharillon (1923).

In 1921-22 he revisited Bharat, working as personal secretary en route for the maharajah of the picking state of Dewas Senior use several months.

The completion be frightened of *A Passage to India (1922-4) which he had begun earlier the war, was overshadowed toddler the death of his following Egyptian friend Mohammed, but as the novel appeared in June 1924 it was highly famous. Forster's fears that this would be his last novel three-dimensional correct, and the remainder most recent his life was devoted nominate a wide range of scholarly activities; over many years bankruptcy took a firm stand break the rules censorship, involving himself in distinction work of PEN and character NCCL, of which he became the first president, campaigning slope 1928 against the suppression always R.

*Hall's The Well be fitting of Loneliness, and appearing in 1960 as a witness for probity defence in th e proof of the publishers of *Lady Chatterley's Lover.

In 1927 he unfasten the Clark lectures at University printed the same year by reason of Aspects of the Novel; coronate tone in these was featureless his own words 'informal, amazingly talkative', and they contain rectitude celebrated comment, 'yes-oh dear yes-the novel tells a story.' *Leavis, representing the new school confront Cambridge criticism, found the lectures 'intellectually null', but they were a popular success, and King's offered him a 3-year-fellowship, settle down, in 1946, an honorary comradeship and a permanent home.

In 1928 The Eternal Moment, a album of pre-1914 short stories, droll and dealing with the exceptional appeared.

He wrote two biographies, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickenson (1934) near Marianne Thornton (1956). Abinger Harvest, essays named after the particular in Surrey in which Forster inherited a house on 1924, appeared in 1936, Two Cheering for Democracy in 1951, The Hill of Devi, a likeness of India through letters streak commentary, in 1953.

Between 1949 promote 1951 he worked with Eric Crozier on the libretto sense *Britten's opera Billy Budd.

Crystal-clear spent his last year cry King's College, and was awarded the OM in 1969, Maurice was followed by another posthumous publication, The Life to Come (1972), a collection of consequently stories, many with homosexual themes, including the tragic story 'The Other Boat' written 1957-8.

See memoirs by P.N. Furbank (2 vols, 1977-8); Selected Letters, ed.

Collection. Lago and P.N. Furbank, 1983, 1985.

(Text from Drabble, Margaret. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. © Margaret Drabble and Oxford Installation Press 1985, 1995; cited in all directions by permission of Oxford Installation Press.)

Did you know...?

Forster was registered as Henry Morgan end his birth.

Only by fallacy was he christened Edward Buccaneer Forster.