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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".

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English novelist (1879-1970)

Born 1 January 1879
Died 7 June 1970

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English novelist (1879-1970)

Born 1 January 1879
Died 7 June 1970

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Fiction British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, general Social life and customs England, fiction English Novelists English literature English fiction Correspondence Fiction, romance, general Forster, e. m. (edward morgan), 1879-1970 History and criticism Manners and customs Young women Biography British History Criticism and interpretation English Short stories Fiction, short stories (single author) Inheritance and succession Man-woman relationships, fiction Social conflict Authors, english Culture conflict

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England Great Britain India Florence (Italy) Italy Florence Hertfordshire (England) Alexandria (Egypt) London Araby Araby bazaar Briten Britisch-Indien Cambridge (England) Dewas Senior (India : State) Dewas Senior (India) Dewas Senior (Princely State) Egypt Grande-Bretagne Hertfordshire Indien North Richmond Street Palau Pelew Islands

People

E. M. Forster (1879-1970) Donald Windham G. Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932) Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) Marianne Thornton (1797-1887) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Alfred Doolittle Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) Colonel Pickering D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Desmond MacCarthy Desmond MacCarthy (1878-1952) E. K. Bennett (1887-1958) E. M Forster (1879-1970) E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 Forster Eliza Doolittle Forrest Reid (1875-1947) Freddy Eynsford Hill Galatea Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Henry Higgins Henry Thornton (1760-1815) John Jebb (1775-1833) Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910) Madan Blanchard (fl. 1783)

Time

20th century 1900's 1882- 1882-1952 1900 1912 1920's 19th century 20e siècle Early 20th century Edwardian Era (1901-1910) Geschichte 1900

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