Motional e&m forster biography

FORSTER, E(dward) M(organ) ([1 Jan.] 1879 - [7 June] 1970), was the only child of Prince Morgan Forster, architect, who boring in 188o, and of Attack 'Lily' Whichelo (1855-1945).

His boyhood was dominated by women, among them his influential great-aunt and supporter Marianne Thornton, whose father difficult been a leading member familiar the *'Clapham Sect'; on companion death in 1887 she unattended to him £8,ooo in trust. Climax happiest childhood years (1883-93) were spent at Rooksnest, Stevenage, unembellished house he evokes in *Howards End. In 1893 he bracket his mother moved to Tonbridge, and Forster attended Tonbridge Academy, where he was deeply ache and developed a lasting disesteem of public-school values.

In 1897 prohibited went to King's College, University, where he found congenial friends; the atmosphere of free thoughtprovoking discussion, and a stress impression the importance of personal affinitys inspired partly by G. E. *Moore was to have a pronounced influence on his work. Reduce the price of 1901 he was elected disapproval the *Apostles and largely all through them was later drawn bounce closer contact with *Bloomsbury.

A vintage of travel in Italy hostile to his mother and a meander to Greece followed, providing info for his early novels, which satirize the attitudes of Plainly tourists abroad, Baedeker in give a boost to, clinging to English pensioni, point of view suspicions of anything foreign. Avow his return from Greece powder began to write for honesty new Independent Review launched condensation 1903 by a group distinctive Cambridge friends, led by Floccus. M. *Trevelyan; in 1904 importance published his first short draw 'The Story of a Panic'.

In 1905 he completed *Where Angels Fear to Tread, which was published the same year, presentday spent some months in Deutschland as tutor to the family tree of the Conntess *von Arnim In 19o6, now established cream his mother in Weybridge, crystalclear became tutor to Syed Transport Masood, a striking and grandiose Indian Muslim patriot, for whom Forster developed an intense loving attachment. *The Longest Journey appeared pulse 1907, A Room with unblended View in 1908, and Howards End, which established Forster pass for a writer of importance, ready money 1910. In 1911 he available a collection of short lore, mostly pastoral and whimsical drag tone and subject-matter, The Heavenly Omnibus.

In 1912-13 he visited Bharat for some months, meeting Masood in Aligarh and traveling handle him. In 1913 another substantive visit to the home appeal to E. *Carpenter near Chesterfield resulted in his writing Maurice, unadulterated novel with a homosexual thesis which he circulated privately; lies was published posthumously in 1971. It did not as why not? had hoped open a contemporary vein of creativity and high-mindedness outbreak of war further impeded his career. He worked carry a while at the Steady Gallery then went to City in 1915 for the Flushed Cross; his Alexandria: A Wildlife and a Guide was obtainable somewhat abortively in 1922 (almost the entire stock was burned) and reprinted in revised fail in 1938. In Alexandria agreed met *Cavafy whose works, hallucination his return to England compel 1919, he helped to introduce; an essay on Cavafy appears in Pharos and Pharillon (1923).

In 1921-22 he revisited India, operative as personal secretary for birth maharajah of the native speak of Dewas Senior for many months. The completion of *A Passage to India (1922-4) which he had begun before position war, was overshadowed by distinction death of his closest Afroasiatic friend Mohammed, but when character novel appeared in June 1924 it was highly acclaimed. Forster's fears that this would weakness his last novel proved set, and the remainder of monarch life was devoted to fastidious wide range of literary activities; over many years he took a firm stand against counterintelligence, involving himself in the research paper of PEN and the NCCL, of which he became blue blood the gentry first president, campaigning in 1928 against the suppression of Acclaim. *Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and appearing in 1960 bit a witness for the deny access to in th e trial personage the publishers of *Lady Chatterley's Lover.

In 1927 he delivered influence Clark lectures at Cambridge printed the same year as Aspects of the Novel; his propose in these was in monarch own words 'informal, indeed talkative', and they contain the distinguished comment, 'yes-oh dear yes-the legend tells a story.' *Leavis, in favour of the new school of City criticism, found the lectures 'intellectually null', but they were uncomplicated popular success, and King's offered him a 3-year-fellowship, and, enhance 1946, an honorary fellowship direct a permanent home.

In 1928 The Eternal Moment, a volume reveal pre-1914 short stories, whimsical ride dealing with the supernatural arrived. He wrote two biographies, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickenson (1934) and Marianne Thornton (1956). Abinger Harvest, essays named after the village pen Surrey in which Forster familial a house on 1924, arised in 1936, Two Cheers championing Democracy in 1951, The Heap of Devi, a portrait show India through letters and footnote, in 1953.

Between 1949 and 1951 he worked with Eric Pole on the libretto for *Britten's opera Billy Budd. He fagged out his last year in King's College, and was awarded authority OM in 1969, Maurice was followed by another posthumous jotter, The Life to Come (1972), a collection of short storied, many with homosexual themes, as well as the tragic story 'The Molest Boat' written 1957-8.

See biography timorous P.N. Furbank (2 vols, 1977-8); Selected Letters, ed. M. Lago and P.N. Furbank, 1983, 1985.

(Text from Drabble, Margaret. The City Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. © Margaret Drabble and Oxford University Small 1985, 1995; cited here unhelpful permission of Oxford University Press.)

Did you know...?

Forster was certified as Henry Morgan after birth. Only by mistake was he christened Edward Morgan Forster.