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 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.
4597 (10 May 1991): 19
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 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 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
Reception Rose Allatini
At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed...
Reception D. H. Lawrence
Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...
Reception Elizabeth Jenkins
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...
Reception Hannah More
From her youth, HM tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four...
Reception Virginia Woolf
Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell

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