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.
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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
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Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne, 1969.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986.
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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's Miss Lavish has an unpublished novel destroyed in an accident.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's previously unpublished Arctic Summer, 2003.
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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, 2005.
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—in homage to Forster
, who wrote One may as well begin with Helen's letters to...
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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, 1970.
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
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, 1986–2011, 6 vols.
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living writers into two...
Travel
Elizabeth Taylor
ET
first visited Greece, on a cruise with her husband
and daughter; her fellow travellers included Alfred Noyes
and E. M. Forster
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Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
