5. Edward Morgan Forster was born in London on the first day of 1879 ,British
novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His fame rests largely on his
novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) and on a large
body of criticism.
His father, an architect from a strict evangelical family, died of consumption
soon after Forster was born, leaving him to be raised by his mother and
paternal great-aunt. Because his mother was from a more liberal and
somewhat irresponsible background, Forster's home life was rather tense.
He was raised in the household of Rooks nest, which inspired Howards
End.
Forster was educated as a dayboy at the Ton bridge-School, Kent, an
experience responsible for a good deal of his later criticism of the English
public school system. He then attended King's College, Cambridge, which
greatly broadened his intellectual interests and provided him with his first
exposure to Mediterranean culture, which counterbalanced the more rigid
English culture in which he was raised.
6. Forster became a writer shortly after graduating
from King's College. His first novels were
products of that particular time stories about the
changing social conditions during the decline of
Victorianism. However, these earlier works
differed from Forster's contemporaries in their
more colloquial style and established the
author's early conviction that men and women
should keep in touch with the land to cultivate
their imaginations.
7. His first novel, 1-Where Angels
Fearto Tread (1905), is the
story of Lilia, a young English
widow who falls in love with an
Italian man, and of the efforts of
her bourgeois relatives to get her
back from Monteriano (based on
San Gimignano)
Next, Forster published 2- The
Longest Journey (1907), an inverted
bildungsroman following the lame
Rickie Elliott from Cambridge to a
career as a struggling writer and
then to a post as a schoolmaster
8. 3- A Room with a View (1908), The book
explores the young Lucy Honeychurch's
trip to Italy with her cousin, and the choice
she must make between the free-thinking
George Emerson and the repressed
aesthete Cecil Vyse.
4- Howards End (1910) novel concerned with
different groups within the Edwardian
middle classes, represented by the Schlegels
(bohemian intellectuals), the Wilcoxes
(thoughtless plutocrats) and the Basts
(struggling lower-middle-class aspirants).
9. 5- A Passage to India (1924):
The novel takes as its subject
the relationship between East
and West, seen through the
lens of India in the later days
of the
British Raj.
10. 6- Maurice (1971)
The novel was controversial,
given that Forster's
homosexuality had not been
previously known or widely
acknowledged. Today's
criti.cs continue to argue over
the extent to which Forster's
sexuality and personal
activities influenced his
writing.
11. His life after of
the novel :
After writing A Passage to India, Edward Forster
became a BBC radio Broadcaster in the 1930s and
1940s, and worked with the Union of Ethical
Societies. He received a Benson Medal award in
1937. He was a homosexual and he never got
married. He lived with his mother from 1925 till she
died at the age of 90 on 11 March 1945.
In January 1946, Forester represented King’s college,
Cambridge and his majority of life was spend in the
college.
12. He declined a knighthood which is one of
the highest honors an individual in the
United Kingdom can achieve in 1949 and
was made a Companion of Honor in 1953.
After his years in the University, he
travelled through Europe with his
mother.
13. In 1914, he visited Egypt, Germany and
India with Goldsworthy Lowes
Dickinson, by that time after wards he
have had the time to write all of his
novels. In addition, Forster was a
volunteer in the Red Cross during the
First World War.
14. He died on July 7, 1970. His novels show
interest in personal relationships and
obstacles in the last 46 years of his life,
Forrester has not only real-life stories to
write.
15. However, he wrote articles and translations in
cash and morally excellent wonderful manner
and with the same beauty and elegance and
civility that characterized his novels.
16. References :
• E.M. Forster. (n.d) . Retrieved from
http://www.gradesaver.com/author/e-forster
• British writers. (n.d).Retrieved from
http://global.britannica.com/biography/E-M-Forster
• Edward Morgan Forster(n.d).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster
17. BY :
- Hind Muhammad
- Abrar Khaled
- Hajar Almotari
- Waad Mobarak
- Ahad Mousa
- Arwa salem
