This was enough to live on and enabled him to become a writer. Forster inherited £8,000 (equivalent to £946,428 in 2021 ) in trust from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton (daughter of the abolitionist Henry Thornton), who died on 5 November 1887. Life Early years Ī section of the main building, Tonbridge SchoolĪmong Forster's ancestors were members of the Clapham Sect, a social reform group in the Church of England. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 20 separate years. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy. He then travelled throughout Europe before publishing his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, in 1905. Today, he is considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists.Īfter 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 also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. Edward 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).
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