Non-Frames Version Frames Version Raw XML File (23k) E.M. Forster: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Descriptive Summary Creator Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 Title E.M. Forster Collection Dates: Abstract: This collection comprises correspondence, primarily with J.R. Ackerley and Malcolm Darling, and drafts of literary works, notably Passage to India. Quantity: 6 boxes (2.5 linear feet) and 1 galley folder Identification: Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin Biographical Sketch Edward Morgan Forster was born January 1, 1879, in London. His father, also Edward Morgan, was an architect and died of consumption 18 months after the birth of his son, leaving him in the care of his mother, Alice Clara Whichelo and a variety of female relatives. Forster's mother moved with her young son to rural Hertfordshire in 1883 where he lived for most of his childhood before being sent to Kent House preparatory school in Eastbourne. In 1887 a great-aunt left a legacy to Forster which, when combined with his father's estate, paid for Forster's education and later allowed him the leisure to be a writer without needing to worry about income. Forster finished his school days at Tonbridge School, which he attended as a day student rather than as a boarder between 1893-1897. In the autumn of 1897, Forster entered King's College, Cambridge, where he found liberation from the conformist attitudes of preparatory school. He was elected to the Apostles in 1901, along with Desmond MacCarthy, and became acquainted with the well-known alumni of that society, G.E. Moore, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, and Roger Fry, among others, who later introduced him into the Bloomsbury group. It was at Cambridge that Forster began to think of himself as a writer and the years immediately following his graduation were his most productive as a novelist. Between 1903 and 1910 he produced | |
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