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.

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Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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
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.
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In her preface, MB acknowledges the influence of E. M. Forster
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.
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The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Flora Macdonald Mayor
This novel sold reasonably well and FMM was again lauded by several contemporary critics, including E. M. Forster , G. B. Stern , and Rebecca West .
Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan.
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Keith, Rhonda. British Novelists 1890-1929: Modernists. Editor Staley, Thomas F., Gale Research Company, pp. 169-71.
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It took five years for FMM
Textual Production Zadie Smith
ZS was thirty when this book appeared, as Forster was at the publication of Howards End.
Kermode, Frank. “Here she is”. London Review of Books, pp. 13-14.
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She later wrote of On Beauty: With a brazen ahistoricism I can't intellectually defend, around February...
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Carrington also created portraits of, among many others, psychoanalyst Alix Sargent-Florence (later Strachey) , writer and model Julia Strachey (later Tomlin) , and E. M. Forster .
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
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Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, pp. 7-9.
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Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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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.
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Textual Production Emily Spender
E. M. Forster 's Miss Lavish has an unpublished novel destroyed in an accident. It is not known if this was true of ES as well.
Textual Production Anita Desai
Her other scholarly introductions include one for Rabindranath Tagore 's Selected Short Stories in a new translation in 1991,
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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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...
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.
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, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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.
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Rather, says Sullivan, SJD questioned the...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot

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