E. M. Forster

01 January 1879 - 08 June 1970

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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Leisure and Society	Jennifer Johnston	Although JJ says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today, Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press, 2003. 67 in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...
Leisure and Society	Margaret Kennedy	Poet Laureate John Masefield presided over the event, and gave a speech which MK admired. E. M. Forster also attended the dinner. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 127-8
Literary responses	Ann Bridge	This book won the Atlantic Monthly Prize, of $10,000 US, which the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography translates to £3,500 at the conversion rates of the time, and which was urgently needed for children's school...
Literary responses	Anita Brookner	There was some astonishment in the media when this novel won the Booker Prize (although it was up against J. G. Ballard 's Empire of the Sun. The book itself significantly boosted AB 's literary...
Literary responses	Jan Struther	Most reviewers in England were charmed by the book, but it was hated by E. M. Forster (who found it both snobbish and underbred), Rosamond Lehmann , and a voice on the letters page of...
Literary responses	Flora Annie Steel	An early study of FAS 's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan , complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 69 Violet Powell, who admires...
Literary responses	Radclyffe Hall	A number of writers rallied in support of RH . E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw , T. S. Eliot
Literary responses	A. E. Housman	The volume was not an instant success, though it was later admired by authors such as E. M. Forster and W. H. Auden . Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 345-6
Literary responses	Rose Macaulay	Forster himself clearly did not like her treatment of him. To Leonard Woolf , the publisher, he said it was not a good book: tactful, gratifying, and in a sense intelligent, but tamely conceived and...
Literary responses	Lucas Malet	The Times review found the subject-matter of these stories derivative: now of Henry James , now of E. M. Forster , now of unnamed murder-mystery writers.She likes a revolver shot, not for any mystery...
Literary responses	Virginia Woolf	The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...
Literary responses	Virginia Woolf	VW found the Times Literary Supplement notice depressingly similar to the same journal's views of Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway: that is, in her summary, gentlemanly, kindly, timid & praising beauty, doubting character. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols. 3: 134
Literary responses	Virginia Woolf	Ethel Smyth sent her responses to this book by telegram on publication day: Book astounding so far. Agitatingly increases value of life. Two days later she sent: Final paragraph almost smashes machine of life with...
Literary responses	Naomi Mitchison	NM was awarded the Palmes de l'Académie Française for this novel in the year after publication. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 15: 333 Calder, Jenni. The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison. Virago, 1997. 73 Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. She later wrote that this was my only official recognition from anywhere. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 65 The novel...
Literary responses	Ketaki Kushari Dyson	KKD garnered enthusiastic reviews on at least three continents. The Times Literary Supplement commended her ability to get close to her subjects: Only Connect, urged E. M. Forster : Ketaki Dyson does connect. qtd. in Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 2002, p. xxi; 406 pp. back cover

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