![]() ![]() ![]() But when a baby is born, the family returns with renewed hostility. The English family send out a party to ‘rescue’ her (shades of Henry James) – but they are too late she has already married him. A wealthy and spirited middle-class English girl goes to Italy and becomes involved with a penniless local man. Where Angels Fear to Tread (1902) This is Forster’s first novel and very witty debut. Instead, he turned to essays – which are well worth reading. This was because he no longer felt he could write about the subject of heterosexual love which he did not know or feel. His novels grew in complexity and depth, and yet he suddenly gave up fiction in 1923. He was also an inner member of The Bloomsbury Group. These included the concept of what they called ‘tea-tabling’ – making the substance of serious fiction the ordinary events of everyday life. ![]() He was a friend of Virginia Woolf, with whom he worked out some of the ground rules of literary modernism. He documents the Edwardian and Georgian periods in a witty and elegant prose, satirising the middle and upper classes he knew so well. Novels and stories by Bloomsbury modernistĮ.M.Forster is often seen as a bridge between the nineteenth and the twentieth century novel. ![]()
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