E. M. Forster | E. M. Forster

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Author: Nicola Beauman
First Published: 1993
Type of Work: Literary biography
Time of Work: 1879-1970
Setting: England, Italy, Greece, and India
Principal Characters: E. M. Forster, Lily Forster, Eddie Forster, Marianne Thornton, G. M. Trevelyan, Constantine Cavafy, Syed Ross Masood, Mohammed el Adl, Bob Buckingham
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Social life, Novelists, Women’s issues, Liberalism, India or East Indian people, World War I
Locales: England, Italy, Greece, India

E. M. Forster has enjoyed both a high reputation and popularity as a novelist. Several of his novels have been filmed—most notably A Room with a View (1908; film, 1986) and Howards End (1910; film, 1992). His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, was published in 1905, and his last, A Passage to India, in 1924. Thereafter he published no fiction, although he lived another forty-six years. Why he should have experienced a twenty-year burst of creativity and then lapsed into silence cannot be entirely explained, but Nicola Beauman makes a superb effort, as...

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