E.M. Forster

E.M.

Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist known for works exploring class, connection, and repression in Edwardian society.

His major novels include *A Room with a View*, *Howards End*, and *A Passage to India*.

The phrase only connect from *Howards End* became a touchstone for his humanist themes.

His homosexuality, concealed during his lifetime, informed *Maurice*, published posthumously.

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Virginia Woolf · Cambridge · social class · personal freedom · repression · closeted · friendship · World War I aftermath · Edwardian era · English countryside · passage · Howard's End · modernist literature · book · Joseph Conrad · letter · intellectual · view

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Ezra Pound · D.H. Lawrence · G.K. Chesterton · Ayn Rand · T.S. Eliot

sexuality and public persona

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