At King’s College, Cambridge, he enjoyed a sense of liberation. The difference between the two families, his father’s being strongly evangelical with a high sense of moral responsibility, his mother’s more feckless and generous-minded, gave him an enduring insight into the nature of domestic tensions, while his education as a dayboy (day student) at Tonbridge School, Kent, was responsible for many of his later criticisms of the English public school (private) system. His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) and on a large body of criticism.įorster’s father, an architect, died when the son was a baby, and he was brought up by his mother and paternal aunts. Forster, in full Edward Morgan Forster, (born January 1, 1879, London, England-died June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire), British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Į.M.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.

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