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E.M. Forster: biography

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Edward morgan forster biography

Forster was born Edward Morgan Forster on 1st January 1879 in London. Forster was born to a Welsh father, Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, and an Anglo-Irish mother, Alice Clara Whichelo. Edward Senior died of tuberculosis when his son was only a year old.

He left the family considerable money so Forster had quite a privileged upbringing. He was close to his mother who cared for him deeply. Forster enjoyed a pleasant childhood in their Hertfordshire home that the two moved to in 1883.

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1 - E.M. Forster is a well-known modernist writer whose best works include A Room with a View and A Passage to India.

Forster attended a boarding school as a teenager that he disliked as he saw the students and school ethos as snobbish.

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Forster then went on to attend King's College, Cambridge. He studied history, literature, and philosophy.

He began to foster a love of writing while at university. Forster also participated in debate groups that began to sha