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.
KKD
garnered enthusiastic reviews on at least three continents. The Times Literary Supplement commended her ability to get close to her subjects: Only Connect, urged E. M. Forster
: Ketaki Dyson does connect.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, p. xxi; 406 pp.
back cover
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.
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Literary responses
Radclyffe Hall
A number of writers rallied in support of RH
. E. M. Forster
and Leonard Woolf
drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw
, T. S. Eliot
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Agnes Hamilton
Her title makes multiple allusion to disparate other texts. Its first four words are quoted from a poem of aspiration by Christina Rossetti
; the rest of it alludes to E. M. Forster
's semi-disillusioned...
Literary responses
A. E. Housman
The volume was not an instant success, though it was later admired by authors such as E. M. Forster
and W. H. Auden
.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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...
Textual Production
Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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...
Performance of text
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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
Textual Production
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ
's next, highly successful screenplay was released: Howards End, a version of another novel by E. M. Forster
.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
190-3, 263
Intertextuality and Influence
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heat and Dust presents a double plot: one set in the present, told in first-person narrative and in journals, and one set in 1923 (the April of which year saw an outbreak of Muslim-Hindu violence...
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...
Leisure and Society
Jennifer Johnston
Although JJ
says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today,
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
67
in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...
Textual Production
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.
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She said of Johnson
's Rasselas and Goethe
's Elective Affinities (both of which...
