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
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.
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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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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.
3: 421
living writers into two...
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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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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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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's Miss Lavish has an unpublished novel destroyed in an accident.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.
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Anita Desai
Her other scholarly introductions include one for Rabindranath Tagore
's Selected Short Stories in a new translation in 1991,
and E. M. Forster
's previously unpublished Arctic Summer, 2003.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, pp. 11-22.
E. M. Forster
presented twenty letters by AS
in 1939 to the Dr Johnson Birthplace Museum
in Lichfield, where they still remain.
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6.
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AS
has some poems and letters included in volume four of...
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Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
contributed several titles to her Wellington publisher's undated collection Houlston
's Series of Tracts. The copy now at the University of Alberta
was once owned by E. M. Forster
, who pasted his bookplate into it.
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Zadie Smith
ZS
opened her novel On Beauty: One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father
Smith, Zadie. On Beauty. A Novel. Hamish Hamilton.
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—in homage to Forster
, who wrote One may as well begin with Helen's letters to...
Timeline
After February 1917: Supporters of the Russian Revolution including...
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After February 1917
Supporters of the Russian Revolution including Evelyn Sharp
founded the 1917 Club
to provide a venue for freely discussing the revolution without fear of attracting attention under the Defence of the Realm Act or Dora.
1924: Billy Budd, Foretopman, a novella written...
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1924
Billy Budd, Foretopman, a novella written by Herman Melville
in 1891, was published posthumously in a volume entitled Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces.
1928: Edwin Muir published The Structure of the...
21-25 June 1935: The First International Congress of Writers...
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21-25 June 1935
The First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (an anti-fascist event urging the responsibility of writers to their society) was held in Paris.
4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...
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4 October 1951
E. M. Forster
's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme
was published in The Listener.
Texts
Forster, E. M. A Passage to India. Edward Arnold, 1924.
Forster, E. M. A Room With a View. Edward Arnold, 1908.
Forster, E. M. A Room With A View. Editor Stallybrass, Oliver, Holmes and Meier, 1977.
Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Edward Arnold, 1927.
Forster, E. M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910.
Forster, E. M. Howards End. Editor Stallybrass, Oliver, The Provost and Scholars of King’s College, 1973.
Forster, E. M. “Introduction and General Notes”. A Room With a View, edited by Oliver Stallybrass, Holmes and Meier, 1977, pp. vii - xix; 221.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, 1925, pp. 7-24.
Forster, E. M. Maurice. MacMillan, 1971.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press, 1925.
