Title: Morgan - A Biography of E. M. Forster Author: Nicola Beauman Published by: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993 ISBN: 0-340-52530-4 [hardcover, 403 pages]
Morgan Forster, the author of six remarkable novels, is considered one of England's greatest novelists. He wrote his first novel in 1905 when in his mid-twenties and by the time he was thirty-five he had completed four more; he published A Passage to India ten years later and never wrote another novel.This is only the second full biography to have been published in the twenty years since Forster died. It is remarkable for its sympathetic attempt to unravel the connections between the novelist and his life: Nicola Beauman's deep admiration for Forster's work has inspired her to write a highly personal account of the suburban existence that produced both extraordinary novels and unconventional relationships.
Morgan explores every aspect of Forster's life as a novelist: his lifelong obsession with houses, families and inherited traditions; the tentacle-grasp of the widowed mother; and the sexual and emotional frustration enduring, because of his homosexuality, into middle age. Among the many new discoveries from hitherto unpublished material is that Maurice, Forster's posthumously published novel about homosexual love, was based upon real events and real people.
Nicola Beauman's researches have taken her to Italy, to Alexandria and to India; and of course to Cambridge, to Weybridge and to 'Howards End'. Interweaving biographical insight with a deep understanding of the novels, she has written an intuitive and original work which is both scholarly and easily accessible to the general reader.
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