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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
an important British writer, famous for his novels Howard's End, A Passage to India, and A Room with a View (1879-1970)
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")
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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