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.
Painting of E. M. Forster by Roger Fry, 1911. Forster looks straight at the viewer, wearing a greenish suit with handkerchief in breast pocket, seated in a soft chair with patterned and floral cushions.

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Occupation Storm Jameson
SJ 's work on behalf of the imprisoned and the exiled required her to spend an immense amount of time and energy in diverse literary, social, and political circles. Joanna Labon asserts that [u]nder Jameson's...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
VW refused E. M. Forster 's request for permission to nominate her to the Committee of the London Library , because of the library's policy against women members (a policy instituted by her father, Leslie Stephen ).
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols.
2: 224
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
216
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
663
Occupation Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
His work had great impact in England, where he was praised by George Bernard Shaw , Katherine Mansfield , Virginia Woolf , and E. M. Forster . Constance Garnett translated many of his works...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
371-3
Its political interests were served by enlightened...
Performance of text Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Merchant-Ivory Productions ' A Room with a View, filmed from the novel by E. M. Forster , was released with RPJ 's screenplay; its mass exposure helped to produce a peak moment in her fame.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
199-200
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
240, 200
politics Storm Jameson
In November 1928 SJ was one of many authors (including E. M. Forster , Virginia and Leonard Woolf , and Desmond MacCarthy ) prepared to testify in defence of Radclyffe Hall 's lesbian novel The...
politics Virginia Woolf
The New Censorship, a letter to the editor protesting against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall'sThe Well of Loneliness and signed by VW and E. M. Forster , appeared in the Nation.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
115
politics Virginia Woolf
Each meeting consisted of dinner, followed by an address from a speaker, followed by discussion. Speakers included E. M. Forster , Virginia's brother Adrian , and Ray Strachey . About a dozen working-class women attended...
Publishing Eliza Fay
EF 's Original Letters from India was re-published by the Hogarth Press , with introductory and terminal notes by E. M. Forster .
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986.
32
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
ET began writing stories early. She finished several in late 1941 and early 1942 which satisfied her at the time without shaking her convictioon that she was not yet writing well. None of these survive...
Reception Virginia Woolf
Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell
Reception Elizabeth Jenkins
The book received some appreciative reviews, but there were others which argued that EJ was culpable in her use of real events which were so traceable. The Time and Tide notice (by a reviewer whom...
Reception Rose Allatini
At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed...
Reception Hannah More
From her youth, HM tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four...
Reception D. H. Lawrence
Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...

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