E. M. Forster CH OM
(1879-1970)
novelist, Companion of Honour (from 1953), and Order of Merit recipient (from 1969)
Died aged c. 91
Wikidata WikipediaEdward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. He also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). Today, he is considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists. Born into a comfortable middle-class family, Forster was an only child. His father died before he reached the age of two, and thereafter he was raised by his mother and a variety of other female relatives. After attending Tonbridge School he studied history and classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he met fellow future writers such as Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf. He then travelled throughout Europe before publishing his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread in 1905. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 20 separate years.
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Commemorated on 5 plaques
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E. M. Forster 1879-1970 novelist lived here
Arlington Park Mansions, Sutton Lane, Turnham Green, W4 Hounslow, London, United Kingdom where they lived
E. M. Forster 1879-1970 novelist and author of A Room with a View, Howard's End, A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread lived here 1898-1901
10 Earl's Road, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom where they lived
E. M. Forster lived and wrote here 1904-1925
19 Monument Green, Weybridge, United Kingdom where they lived and wrote
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Beech Villa and its neighbour, Beech Lodge, were built in the 1950's as a model development by the Duchy of Lancaster and served for many years as private hotels. In 1913 E. M. Forster, the author of 'Howard's End', 'A Passage to India', etc, stayed here when writing his controversial novel 'Maurice'. The buildings are not open to the public
1 Esplanade, Harrogate, United Kingdom where they stayed and stayed (1913)
E M Forster Novelist and Essayist 1879-1970 lived here
38 Dry Hill Park Road, Tonbridge, United Kingdom where they lived