Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
E. M. Forster
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Standard Name: Forster, E. M.
Used Form: Edward Morgan Forster
EMF
was a major novelist of the early twentieth century (despite his slender lifetime output of five novels). He was also a short-story writer, an influential critic of fiction, and the author of travel writing, surviving letters, and an opera libretto. He produced a pioneering text of post-colonialism in his final published novel, A Passage to India. After his death he was accorded the status of an activist for the acceptance of homosexual love between men, on the appearance of his polemical, posthumously-published novel Maurice.
and E. M. Forster
's previously unpublished Arctic Summer, 2003.
Textual Production
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ
declined, however, to write the screenplay for the next Merchant-Ivory film, released the following year, from Forster
's homosexual novel Maurice, unpublished during his lifetime. Laurie Sucher
says RPJ
felt this novel to...
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Ruth Padel
RP
joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy
(1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society
in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...
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Elizabeth Jolley
EJ
invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert
's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
15
, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
40
She said of Johnson
's Rasselas and Goethe
's Elective Affinities (both of which...
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
According to critic Rosemary Sullivan
, SJDwas an elitist and a monarchist. She had no difficulty with the lot of the Indians and the ethics of imperialism.
Sullivan, Rosemary, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. The Pool in the Desert, edited by Gillian Siddall and Gillian Siddall, Broadview, pp. 11-22.
E. M. Forster
presented twenty letters by AS
in 1939 to the Dr Johnson Birthplace Museum
in Lichfield, where they still remain.
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6.
60n1
AS
has some poems and letters included in volume four of...
Textual Features
Mary Butts
The novel presents Alexander (later the subject of a fictional trilogy by Mary Renault
) as gradually coming to an acceptance of his own spirituality.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
In her preface, MB
acknowledges the influence of E. M. Forster
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Zadie Smith
Meanwhile Samad, under the pressure of menial work, low pay, constant low-level racist harrassment, a rebellious wife and insubordinate children, turns to religion. He nevertheless has an affair with one of his sons' teachers, and...
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Daphne Du Maurier
The English title story brings together, beside the sea in Greece, a shy bachelor schoolmaster (English, of course) and an extrovert, boozy American with overtones of the pagan god Pan (which might suggest E. M. Forster
Reception
Elizabeth Jenkins
The book received some appreciative reviews, but there were others which argued that EJ
was culpable in her use of real events which were so traceable. The Time and Tide notice (by a reviewer whom...
Reception
Hannah More
From her youth, HM
tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four...
Reception
Virginia Woolf
Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa
, Clive Bell
Reception
Rose Allatini
At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed...
Reception
D. H. Lawrence
Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...
