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.
ET
began writing stories early. She finished several in late 1941 and early 1942 which satisfied her at the time without shaking her convictioon that she was not yet writing well. None of these survive...
Publishing
Eliza Fay
EF
's Original Letters from India was re-published by the Hogarth Press
, with introductory and terminal notes by E. M. Forster
.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
32
politics
Virginia Woolf
The New Censorship, a letter to the editor protesting against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall'sThe Well of Loneliness and signed by VW
and E. M. Forster
, appeared in the Nation.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
115
politics
Virginia Woolf
Each meeting consisted of dinner, followed by an address from a speaker, followed by discussion. Speakers included E. M. Forster
, Virginia's brother Adrian
, and Ray Strachey
. About a dozen working-class women attended...
Merchant-Ivory Productions
' A Room with a View, filmed from the novel by E. M. Forster
, was released with RPJ
's screenplay; its mass exposure helped to produce a peak moment in her fame.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
199-200
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
240, 200
Occupation
Storm Jameson
SJ
's work on behalf of the imprisoned and the exiled required her to spend an immense amount of time and energy in diverse literary, social, and political circles. Joanna Labon
asserts that [u]nder Jameson's...
Occupation
Virginia Woolf
VW
refused E. M. Forster
's request for permission to nominate her to the Committee of the London Library
, because of the library's policy against women members (a policy instituted by her father, Leslie Stephen
).
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 224
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
371-3
Its political interests were served by enlightened...
Literary responses
Lucas Malet
The Times review found the subject-matter of these stories derivative: now of Henry James
, now of E. M. Forster
, now of unnamed murder-mystery writers.She likes a revolver shot, not for any mystery...
Literary responses
Naomi Mitchison
NM
was awarded the Palmes de l'Académie Française
for this novel in the year after publication.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
15: 333
Calder, Jenni. The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison. Virago.
73
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
She later wrote that this was my only official recognition from anywhere.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
65
The novel...
Literary responses
Flora Annie Steel
An early study of FAS
's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan
, complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann.
69
Violet Powell, who admires...
Literary responses
Jan Struther
Most reviewers in England were charmed by the book, but it was hated by E. M. Forster
(who found it both snobbish and underbred), Rosamond Lehmann
, and a voice on the letters page of...
Literary responses
Virginia Woolf
The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...
