E. M. Forster

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They discussed aesthetic and philosophical questions in a spirit of agnosticism and were strongly influenced by Moore’s Principia Ethica and by Whitehead’s and Russell’s Principia Mathematica, in the light of which they searched for definitions of the good, the true, and the beautiful and questioned accepted ideas with a “comprehensive irreverence” for all kinds of sham.

at King’s College, he enjoyed a sense of liberation. For the first time he was free to follow his own intellectual inclinations

His first novels and short stories were redolent of an age that was shaking off the shackles of Victorianism.

While adopting certain themes from earlier English novelists such as George Meredith, he broke with the elaborations and intricacies favoured in the late 19th century and wrote in a freer, more colloquial style.

On leaving Cambridge, Forster decided to devote his life to writing.

From the first his novels included a strong strain of social comment, based on acute observation of middle-class life.

Bloomsbury group name given to a group of English writers, philosophers, and artists who frequently met between about 1907 and 1930 at the houses of Clive and Vanessa Bell and of Vanessa’s brother and sister Adrian and Virginia Stephen in the Bloomsbury district of London

Edward Morgan Forster

British novelist, short story writer and social and literary critic

member of Bloomsbury group

works: - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) - The Longest Journey (1907) - A Room with a View ((1908) - Howards End (1910) - A passage to India (1924) - Aspects of the Novel (1927) - The Hill of Devi (1953) - Marianne Thornton (1956) - Maurice (1971)

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- born January 1, 1879, London - his father died when he was a baby - he was brought up by his mother - in 1883 he moved to Hertfordshire - in 1896 he went to King’s College - in 1901 he became a member of Apostles

after leaving university, he travelled in continental Europe with his mother.

India

Egypt

Surrey (where he wrote all six of his novels)

Germany