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Edward Morgan Forster

Male : Novelist. Refused a knighthood in 1946. Probably homosexual. Lived at Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Surrey from 1902-45
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1879 Date of Death : 1970 Age : 91

Education : Tonbridge School & King's College, Cambridge
1905-1910
Where Angel's Fear to Tread
(1905 Blackwood) (1920 Knopf)
The Longest Journey
(1907 Blackwood) (1922 Knopf)
A Room with a View
(1908 Arnold) (1911 Putnam)
[Filmed in 1985]
Howard's End
(1910 Arnold) (1910 Putnam)
[Filmed in 1992]

1911-1925
The Celestial Omnibus & Other Stories
(1911 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1923 Knopf)
The Story of the Siren
(1920 Hogarth Press)
The Government of Egypt
(1920 Labour Research Dept) - pamphlet
Alexandria : A History and a Guide
(1922 Whitehead Morris) (1938, revised 2nd Ed. Whitehead Morris)
Pharos and Pharillon
(1923 Hogarth Press)
A Passage to India
(1924 Arnold) (1924 Harcourt Brace)
[Filmed in 1984]
Anonymity : An Enquiry
(1925 Hogarth Press) - essays. Pamphlet. 2000 copies

1926-1940
Aspects of the Novel
(1927 Arnold) (1927 Harcourt Brace) - prose
The Eternal Moment & Other Stories
(1928 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1928 HB)
A Letter to Madan Blanchard
(1931 Hogarth Press) (1932 HB) - Essay. Pamphlet
Sinclair Lewis Interprets America
(1932 PP) - Pamphlet. Ltd Ed 100
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
(1934 Arnold) (1934 HB) - biog
Pageant of Abinger
(1935 PP) - pamphlet
Abinger Harvest
(1936 Arnold) (1936 HB) - Essays, Reviews, poems, etc
(Foreword) The Banned Books of England by Alec Craig (1937 Allen & Unwin)
What I Believe
(1939 HP) - Essay. 22 pp Pamphlet
Reading As Usual
(1939 Tottenham Public Libraries) - lecture. Pamphlet
Nordic Twilight
(1940 Macmillan) - essay. 32pp Pamphlet
England's pleasant Land
(1940 HP) - play

1941-1970
Virginia Woolf
(1942 CUP) (1942 HB) - The Rede Lecture 1941. Pamphlet
The Development of English Prose Between 1918 and 1930
(1945 Jackson, Glasgow)
- pamphlet. 1000 copies
The Collected Tales
(1947 Knopf)
The Collected Short Stories
(1948 Sidgwick & J) - same as above
Billy Budd
(1951 Boosey & Hawkes) - libretto. Pamphlet
Two Cheers for Democracy
(1951 Arnold) (1951 HB) - Essays
Desmond McCarthy
(1952 Mouse Hill Press) - Ltd Ed 60, pamphlet
The Hill of Devi
(1953 Arnold) (1953 HB) - A memoir
I Assert there is an Alternative to Humanism
(1955 The Ethical Union) - pamphlet
Battersea Rise
(1956 Harcourt Brace) - pamphlet
Marianne Thornton 1797-1887 : A Domestic Biography
(1956 Arnold)
[She was Forster's great-aunt]
Co-ordination : A Story for Music Teachers
(1962 Supplement to "Bandwaggon" magazine, US)

After 1971
The Life to Come & Other Stories
(1971 Arnold) (1973 Norton)
Maurice
(written in 1914 but not allowed to be published until his death in 1971, Arnold) (1971 Norton)
[Filmed in 1987]
A View Without a Room
(1973 Albondocani Press) - Ltd Ed 200
Letters to Donald Windham
(1975 Vernon) - Ltd Ed pamphlet 300
Commonplace Book
(1978 Scolar Press) - Ltd Ed 350 numbered
Only Connect : Letters to Indian Friends
(1979 PP in India) - Ltd Ed 1000
The Collected Tales
(1979 NY)
Arctic Summer & Other Fiction
(1980 Edward Arnold £18.50)
The Selected Letters
(1983 Collins) (1983 Harvard UP)
The Selected Letters
(1984 Collins) (1984 Harvard UP)
The Prince's Tales & Other Uncollected Writings
(1998 Deutsch £25)

READING
Rose Macaulay : The Writings of Forster
(1938)
Lionel Trilling : E M Forster
(1943 Norfolk, Conn)
James McConkey : The Novels of Forster
(1957 Ithaca, NY)
K W Gransden : E M Forster
(1962 Edinburgh)
B J Kirkpatrick : A Bibliography of E M Forster
(1965 Hart-Davis)
Alfred Borello : An E M Forster Dictionary
(1971 Scarecrow Press, NJ)
Alfred Borello : An E M Forster Glossary
(1972 SCarecrow Press, NJ)
Alfred Borello : E M Forster - An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials
(1973 Scarecrow Press, NJ)
(Ed) Frederick P W McDowell : E M Forster - An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Him
(c1976 N Illinois UP)
John Sayre Martin : E M Forster - The Endless Journey
(1976 Cambridge)
P N Furbank : E M Forster - A Life
(1977-8 Secker & Warburg) - 2 vols (1995 Abacus pb £9.99)
Judith Scherer : The Short Narratives of E M Forster
(1988 Macmillan)
Nicola Beauman : Morgan - A Biography of E M Forster
(1993 Hodder & Stoughton)
Mary Lago : E M Forster - A Literary Life
(1995 Macmillan)
(Ed) J H Stape : E M Forster - Critical Assessments (c1998 Robertsbridge)

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