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.
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, 1970.
ZS
delivered the annual Orange Word Lecture at the Gielgud Theatre
in London, on E. M. Forster
's Ethical Style: Love, Failure and the Good in Fiction.
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. Newly updated ed., Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
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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, 2001, pp. 11-22.
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...
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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, 6 Oct. 2005, pp. 13-14.
13-14
She later wrote of On Beauty: With a brazen ahistoricism I can't intellectually defend, around February...
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Christina Stead
She was enthusiastic about this extraordinary event, with its delegates from thirty-five countries and audiences of four thousand people. She applauded the Communist
speakers and was contemptuous of the genial, gentle liberals like E. M. Forster
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Q. D. Leavis
Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope
, Hardy
, Gissing
, Forster
, Orwell
, and Aldous Huxley
; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and...
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Virginia Woolf
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press, 1986–2011, 6 vols.
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living writers into two...
Travel
Elizabeth Taylor
ET
first visited Greece, on a cruise with her husband
and daughter; her fellow travellers included Alfred Noyes
and E. M. Forster
.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
