E m foster biography

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    Biography

    by Anthony Domestico

    E.M. Forster (1879-1970) is difficult writer to classify. An Edwardian modernist, he criticized Victorian middle class mores in formally traditional novels; a writer who idealized connection and sincerity above all else, he kept his own homosexuality hidden from view but defended D.H. Lawrence’s sexually daring Lady Chatterley’s Lover from obscenity charges. Forster’s enduring achievement rests upon his novels, including Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924), his critical study Aspects of the Novel (1927), and his continuing, principled defense of liberal humanism despite the upheavals of the early twentieth century.

    Forster was born on January 1, 1879 in London, England. His father died soon after his birth, and he was raised by his mother and a series of aunts and governesses. As a child, Forster received an inheritance from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton that enabled him to travel and, later, write with little co

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    E. M. Foster

    Not to be confused with E. M. Forster.

    English hona novelist fl. late 18th – early 19th c.

    E. M. Foster (fl. late 18th – early 19th c.) was a Romantic-era woman novelist. Some 14 popular novels of hers appeared in London between 1795 and 1810.[1]

    Novels

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    The Duke of Clarence. An historical novel (1795, signed E. M. F.)[2] takes place in the 15th century, presented in what a modern critic has called "an incongruous style".[1] The plot involves an oäkta boy who is advised to reclaim his unhappy mother, but who finds it hard to lay down his arms after the Battle of Bosworth Field, which ended the Wars of the Roses.[1][3]

    Foster's writing gained confidence as she turned to more modern subject-matter in Frederic and Caroline, or the Fitzmorris Family (1800, E. M. F.),[2] which she dedicated to the Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. It was one of four novels of hers to appear in that y

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    E.M. Forster: biography

    E.M. Forster was born Edward Morgan Forster on 1st January 1879 in London. Forster was born to a Welsh father, Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, and an Anglo-Irish mother, Alice Clara Whichelo. Edward Senior died of tuberculosis when his son was only a year old. He left the family considerable money so Forster had quite a privileged upbringing. He was close to his mother who cared for him deeply. Forster enjoyed a pleasant childhood in their Hertfordshire home that the two moved to in 1883.

    Fig. 1 - E.M. Forster is a well-known modernist writer whose best works include A Room with a View and A Passage to India.

    Forster attended a boarding school as a teenager that he disliked as he saw the students and school ethos as snobbish. Forster then went on to attend King's College, Cambridge. He studied history, literature, and philosophy.

    He began to foster a love of writing while at university. Forster also participated in debate groups that began to sha

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