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.
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...
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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...
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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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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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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.
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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...
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
.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
