Forster, E. M.
Forster, E. M. , Edward Morgan Forster ( 1879 – 1970 ),the only child of Edward Morgan Forster , architect, who died in 1880 , and of Alice ‘Lily’ Whichelo ( 1855 – 1945 ). His boyhood was dominated by women, among them his influential great-aunt and benefactress Marianne Thornton , whose father had been a leading member of the ‘Clapham Sect’ ; on her death in 1887 she left him £8,000 in trust. His happiest childhood years ( 1883 – 93 ) were spent at Rooksnest, Stevenage, a house he evokes in Howards End . In 1893 he and his mother moved to Tonbridge, and Forster attended Tonbridge School, where he was deeply unhappy and developed a lasting dislike of public-school values. In 1897 he went to King's College, Cambridge, where he found congenial friends; the atmosphere of free intellectual discussion, and a stress on the importance of personal relationships inspired partly by G. E....
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