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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 | 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 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 | 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 |
| Textual Production | Ruth Padel | RP
joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy
(1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society
in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the... |
| 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, 1989. 164 Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, 1994, pp. 7-9. 9 Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994. 106 |
| 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, 1969. 125 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 142 Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986. 150 |
| 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 |
| 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, 1970. 524 |
| 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, 1987. 45 Keith, Rhonda. British Novelists 1890-1929: Modernists. Editor Staley, Thomas F., Gale Research Company, 1985, pp. 169-71. 170 |
| 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, 2005. 3 |
| 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, 2010. 10 |
| 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. Newly updated ed., Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 190-3, 263 |
| Textual Production | Sara Jeannette Duncan | According to critic Rosemary Sullivan
, SJDwas an elitist and a monarchist. She had no difficulty with the lot of the Indians and the ethics of imperialism. Sullivan, Rosemary, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. The Pool in the Desert, edited by Gillian Siddall and Gillian Siddall, Broadview, 2001, pp. 11-22. 13 |
| 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... |
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