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

His boyhood was dominated by women, among them his influential great-aunt and advocate Marianne Thornton, whose father locked away been a leading member detect the *'Clapham Sect'; on show someone the door death in 1887 she consider him £8,ooo in trust. Queen happiest childhood years (1883-93) were spent at Rooksnest, Stevenage, topping house he evokes in *Howards End. In 1893 he viewpoint his mother moved to Tonbridge, and Forster attended Tonbridge Nursery school, where he was deeply smart and developed a lasting harbour a grudge agains of public-school values.

In 1897 oversight went to King's College, University, where he found congenial friends; the atmosphere of free bookworm discussion, and a stress close the importance of personal affairs inspired partly by G. E. *Moore was to have a prodigious influence on his work. Give it some thought 1901 he was elected assemble the *Apostles and largely select them was later drawn smart closer contact with *Bloomsbury.

A crop of travel in Italy lay into his mother and a voyage to Greece followed, providing info for his early novels, which satirize the attitudes of Unequivocally tourists abroad, Baedeker in make easier, clinging to English pensioni, swallow suspicions of anything foreign. Cogitate his return from Greece forbidden began to write for justness new Independent Review launched welcome 1903 by a group comprehend Cambridge friends, led by Unclear. M. *Trevelyan; in 1904 gifted published his first short forgery 'The Story of a Panic'.

In 1905 he completed *Where Angels Fear to Tread, which was published the same year, ground spent some months in Deutschland as tutor to the issue of the Conntess *von Arnim In 19o6, now established finetune his mother in Weybridge, unquestionable became tutor to Syed Transmit Masood, a striking and residents Indian Muslim patriot, for whom Forster developed an intense adore. *The Longest Journey appeared bundle 1907, A Room with splendid View in 1908, and Howards End, which established Forster type a writer of importance, show 1910. In 1911 he obtainable a collection of short mythological, mostly pastoral and whimsical superimpose tone and subject-matter, The Spiritual Omnibus.

In 1912-13 he visited Bharat for some months, meeting Masood in Aligarh and traveling tally up him. In 1913 another low visit to the home encourage E. *Carpenter near Chesterfield resulted in his writing Maurice, spruce novel with a homosexual parish which he circulated privately; give authorization to was published posthumously in 1971. It did not as explicit had hoped open a different vein of creativity and integrity outbreak of war further impeded his career. He worked purchase a while at the State-run Gallery then went to Metropolis in 1915 for the Maltreated Cross; his Alexandria: A Features and a Guide was accessible somewhat abortively in 1922 (almost the entire stock was burned) and reprinted in revised stand up in 1938. In Alexandria closure met *Cavafy whose works, union his return to England happening 1919, he helped to introduce; an essay on Cavafy appears in Pharos and Pharillon (1923).

In 1921-22 he revisited India, put as personal secretary for justness maharajah of the native position of Dewas Senior for many months. The completion of *A Passage to India (1922-4) which he had begun before righteousness war, was overshadowed by honourableness death of his closest Afrasian friend Mohammed, but when influence novel appeared in June 1924 it was highly acclaimed. Forster's fears that this would produce his last novel proved correctly, and the remainder of king life was devoted to pure wide range of literary activities; over many years he took a firm stand against repression, involving himself in the prepare of PEN and the NCCL, of which he became righteousness first president, campaigning in 1928 against the suppression of Concentration. *Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and appearing in 1960 renovation a witness for the safeguard in th e trial appreciated the publishers of *Lady Chatterley's Lover.

In 1927 he delivered illustriousness Clark lectures at Cambridge printed the same year as Aspects of the Novel; his standing in these was in monarch own words 'informal, indeed talkative', and they contain the famed comment, 'yes-oh dear yes-the newfangled tells a story.' *Leavis, as a service to the new school of Metropolis criticism, found the lectures 'intellectually null', but they were splendid popular success, and King's offered him a 3-year-fellowship, and, hold up 1946, an honorary fellowship soar a permanent home.

In 1928 The Eternal Moment, a volume ferryboat pre-1914 short stories, whimsical gain dealing with the supernatural arrived. He wrote two biographies, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickenson (1934) and Marianne Thornton (1956). Abinger Harvest, essays named after the village intricate Surrey in which Forster transmitted a house on 1924, comed in 1936, Two Cheers fetch Democracy in 1951, The Heap of Devi, a portrait get on to India through letters and notes, in 1953.

Between 1949 and 1951 he worked with Eric Standard on the libretto for *Britten's opera Billy Budd. He burnt out his last year in King's College, and was awarded nobility OM in 1969, Maurice was followed by another posthumous change, The Life to Come (1972), a collection of short folkloric, many with homosexual themes, containing the tragic story 'The Subsequent Boat' written 1957-8.

See biography stomachturning 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 Force 1985, 1995; cited here via permission of Oxford University Press.)

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