Forster

[fawr-ster]

noun

E(dward) M(organ),1879–1970, English novelist.

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Contemporary Examples of forster

“The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot, Forster wrote in Aspects of the Novel.
‘True Detective,’ Obsessive-Compulsive Noir, and ‘Twin Peaks’
Jimmy So
March 14, 2014
A typical printmaker for hire, Kimmel Forster issued pro-Lincoln lithographs as well.
How a Racist Newspaper Defeated Lincoln in New York in the 1864 Election
Harold Holzer
May 2, 2013
She spends far more time disarming her reader than Nabokov or Forster.
Book Bag: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Writer
Gish Jen
April 9, 2013

Historical Examples of forster

Indeed it is thought that he wrote it almost entirely from the notes of Forster.
Browning's England
Helen Archibald Clarke
There's Forster, with his story of Ascot, and his black-ball at Graham's!
Roland Cashel
Charles James Lever
Alfred was welcomed at the fort by Colonel Forster, with whom he was a great favorite.
The Settlers in Canada
Frederick Marryat
You have heard of the proposal of Colonel Forster, about the cattle at the fort?
The Settlers in Canada
Frederick Marryat
The vacant seat was given to a white representative, Mr. Forster.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
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British Dictionary definitions for forster

Forster

noun

E (dward) M (organ). 1879–1970, English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His best-known novels are A Room with a View (1908), Howard's End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), in all of which he stresses the need for sincerity and sensitivity in human relationships and criticizes English middle-class values

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