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An occupational or topographic surname for someone who worked or lived in a forest
an English occupational or topographic surname for someone who worked or lived in a forest
{i} family name; E.M.Forster, Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), English author(famous for his novels "Passage to India ", "Howard's End" and "A Room with a View")
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E M Forster
born Jan. 1, 1879, London, Eng. died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire British writer. Forster was born into an upper-middle-class family. He attended the University of Cambridge and from roughly 1907 was a member of the informal Bloomsbury group. His early works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and his first major success, Howards End (1910), novels that show his acute observation of middle-class life and its values. After periods in India and Alexandria, he wrote his finest novel, A Passage to India (1924), examining the failure of human understanding between ethnic and social groups under British rule. Maurice, a novel with a homosexual theme written in 1913, appeared posthumously. Aspects of the Novel (1927) is a classic discussion of aesthetics and the creative process. Awarded an honorary fellowship in 1946 at Cambridge, he lived there until his death
E.M. Forster
{i} Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), English author (famous for his novels "Passage to India ", "Howard's End" and "A Room with a View")
E.M. Forster
an important British writer, famous for his novels Howard's End, A Passage to India, and A Room with a View (1879-1970)
Edward Morgan Forster
born Jan. 1, 1879, London, Eng. died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire British writer. Forster was born into an upper-middle-class family. He attended the University of Cambridge and from roughly 1907 was a member of the informal Bloomsbury group. His early works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and his first major success, Howards End (1910), novels that show his acute observation of middle-class life and its values. After periods in India and Alexandria, he wrote his finest novel, A Passage to India (1924), examining the failure of human understanding between ethnic and social groups under British rule. Maurice, a novel with a homosexual theme written in 1913, appeared posthumously. Aspects of the Novel (1927) is a classic discussion of aesthetics and the creative process. Awarded an honorary fellowship in 1946 at Cambridge, he lived there until his death
Edward Morgan Forster
{i} E.M. Forster (1879-1970), English author (famous for his novels "Passage to India ", "Howard's End" and "A Room with a View")
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