Edward Morgan Forster - Life & Style

EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER

Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in in 1879 in a well-to-do upper-middle class family. . He lived comfortably all his life, so he could write a lot. Soon his father died, so he was educated by his mother. He was sent to a strict school. Then he lived a spiritual imprisonment when he entered King's College, Cambridge, where he converted to a liberal philosophy. After leaving Cambridge and after his degree he met a young Indian man, who became a great friend of his. He lived for a time in Italy, lecturing and writing essays, the background of his first and third novels, A Room with a View (Florence), where he explored the differences between the strictness of English conventions and upper-middle-class codes of social behaviour and the more spontaneous and relaxed way of life for the Italians. 

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He was involved in the Bloomsbury Group (he became agnostic), he wrote the first of his two masterpieces, which brought him fame, Howards End (1910), a novel about the relation between what people feel and how they act. In 1912 Forster went to India for the first time, he began to work on A Passage to India, which was published in 1924. At the break of World War I he worked as a cataloger at the National Gallery, and he moved to Egypt: he worked for the Red Cross and he showed his pacific tendencies. After the war he worked as a journalist in England.

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