For most readers Forster now looms larger as a creative force and literary artist—certainly as one who is more relevant for them—than his popular and more voluminous contemporaries such as John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett. Most readers and critics would align him in the quality of his work— though not in breadth and comprehensiveness— with such modern writers as Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence.
Edward Morgan Forster was born at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London, on 1 January 1879. He represented a divided inheritance. His paternal ancestors, the Thorntons, revealed a seriousness and a moral earnestness that Forster admired but sometimes rebelled against; whereas his maternal ancestors, the Whichelos, revealed an enjoyment of the amenities and an aesthetic responsiveness that attracted him perhaps more strongly. In any event, he owed most to his greataunt Marianne Thornton, who left him a legacy of eight thousand pounds when she died in 1887.
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