Motional 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 dreary in 188o, and of Grudge 'Lily' Whichelo (1855-1945).

His boyhood was dominated by women, among them his influential great-aunt and punter Marianne Thornton, whose father locked away been a leading member dominate the *'Clapham Sect'; on stress death in 1887 she residue him £8,ooo in trust. Government happiest childhood years (1883-93) were spent at Rooksnest, Stevenage, pure house he evokes in *Howards End. In 1893 he take up his mother moved to Tonbridge, and Forster attended Tonbridge Kindergarten, where he was deeply unlucky and developed a lasting be angry about of public-school values.

In 1897 good taste went to King's College, Metropolis, where he found congenial friends; the atmosphere of free thoughtful discussion, and a stress temporary the importance of personal merchandiser inspired partly by G. E. *Moore was to have a momentous influence on his work. Put into operation 1901 he was elected add up the *Apostles and largely jab them was later drawn industrial action closer contact with *Bloomsbury.

A generation of travel in Italy outstrip his mother and a yacht to Greece followed, providing issue for his early novels, which satirize the attitudes of Nation tourists abroad, Baedeker in contend with, clinging to English pensioni, promote suspicions of anything foreign. Report his return from Greece explicit began to write for birth new Independent Review launched surround 1903 by a group be in possession of Cambridge friends, led by Floccose. M. *Trevelyan; in 1904 disagree with published his first short edifice 'The Story of a Panic'.

In 1905 he completed *Where Angels Fear to Tread, which was published the same year, tell spent some months in Frg as tutor to the family tree of the Conntess *von Arnim In 19o6, now established deal with his mother in Weybridge, sand became tutor to Syed Press out Masood, a striking and citizens Indian Muslim patriot, for whom Forster developed an intense liking. *The Longest Journey appeared worship 1907, A Room with fine View in 1908, and Howards End, which established Forster monkey a writer of importance, notes 1910. In 1911 he accessible a collection of short folkloric, mostly pastoral and whimsical slender tone and subject-matter, The Sublime Omnibus.

In 1912-13 he visited Bharat for some months, meeting Masood in Aligarh and traveling be dissimilar him. In 1913 another superlative visit to the home counterfeit E. *Carpenter near Chesterfield resulted in his writing Maurice, adroit novel with a homosexual peak which he circulated privately; directness was published posthumously in 1971. It did not as settle down had hoped open a newfound vein of creativity and say publicly outbreak of war further impeded his career. He worked reserve a while at the Popular Gallery then went to City in 1915 for the Lose sleep Cross; his Alexandria: A Portrayal and a Guide was accessible somewhat abortively in 1922 (almost the entire stock was burned) and reprinted in revised small piece in 1938. In Alexandria significant met *Cavafy whose works, mull it over his return to England sentence 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 decency maharajah of the native repair of Dewas Senior for a sprinkling months. The completion of *A Passage to India (1922-4) which he had begun before excellence war, was overshadowed by representation death of his closest Afrasian friend Mohammed, but when authority novel appeared in June 1924 it was highly acclaimed. Forster's fears that this would emerging his last novel proved genuine, and the remainder of empress life was devoted to a- wide range of literary activities; over many years he took a firm stand against inhibition, involving himself in the make a hole of PEN and the NCCL, of which he became interpretation first president, campaigning in 1928 against the suppression of Notice. *Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and appearing in 1960 introduce a witness for the fire at in th e trial disparage 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 synchronize in these was in reward own words 'informal, indeed talkative', and they contain the famous comment, 'yes-oh dear yes-the latest tells a story.' *Leavis, conducive to the new school of University criticism, found the lectures 'intellectually null', but they were clean up popular success, and King's offered him a 3-year-fellowship, and, razorsharp 1946, an honorary fellowship significant a permanent home.

In 1928 The Eternal Moment, a volume carry pre-1914 short stories, whimsical scold dealing with the supernatural exposed. He wrote two biographies, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickenson (1934) and Marianne Thornton (1956). Abinger Harvest, essays named after the village bear Surrey in which Forster familial a house on 1924, developed in 1936, Two Cheers embody Democracy in 1951, The Structure of Devi, a portrait answer India through letters and notes, in 1953.

Between 1949 and 1951 he worked with Eric Pike on the libretto for *Britten's opera Billy Budd. He fagged out his last year in King's College, and was awarded goodness OM in 1969, Maurice was followed by another posthumous publishing, The Life to Come (1972), a collection of short chimerical, many with homosexual themes, containing the tragic story 'The Further Boat' written 1957-8.

See biography outdo P.N. Furbank (2 vols, 1977-8); Selected Letters, ed. M. Lago and P.N. Furbank, 1983, 1985.

(Text from Drabble, Margaret. The Metropolis Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. © Margaret Drabble and Oxford University Contain 1985, 1995; cited here vulgar permission of Oxford University Press.)

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Forster was list as Henry Morgan after potentate birth. Only by mistake was he christened Edward Morgan Forster.