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 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.
240
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
Textual Production 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.
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Sarah Waters
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...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
RM published her first attempt at contemporary literary criticism, and the first critical study of her chosen author, The Writings of E. M. Forster, with the Hogarth Press .
Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins.
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Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Textual Production Zadie Smith
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.
Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Textual Production Storm Jameson
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.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
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.
170
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.

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