E. M. Forster

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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.

Milestones

1 January 1879

Novelist Edward Morgan Forster was born in London; he was known to his friends as Morgan.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.
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August 1904

EMF published his first story, The Story of a Panic, in the Independent Review, a journal established by G. M. Trevelyan .
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon.
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18 October 1910

EMF published Howards End, a condition-of-England novel about the tensions arising from contrasted class and cultural sensibilities.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon.
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4 June 1924

EMF published his last and probably best-known novel, A Passage to India, which examines the effects of British imperialism in that country.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
216
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
247
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon.
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8 June 1970

EMF , English novelist, died in Coventry.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.
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Biography

Birth and Education

1 January 1879

Novelist Edward Morgan Forster was born in London; he was known to his friends as Morgan.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins.
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