This line up of Forster, McLennan, Pickvance and Thompson went on to record Bright Yellow Bright Orange and In October 2005, The Go-Betweens finally achieved mainstream recognition, with the album Oceans Apart ( produced by Mark Wallis and Dave Ruffy ) winning an ARIA award for ' Best Adult Contemporary Album '.

Hanley never achieved major success as a writer, even though he often received favourable reviews, both in Britain and America and counted amongst his admirers E. M. Forster, Lawrence of Arabia, John Cowper Powys, Anthony Burgess, Henry Green and Doris Lessing.

The focal point of The Go-Betweens was the song writing skills of Forster and McLennan, described by The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau as " the greatest songwriting partnership working today.

John Forster, writing in the Examiner on 14 February 1838, expressed the hope that " Mr Macready's success has banished that disgrace version from the stage for ever.

However it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes with contributions from T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, E. M. Forster, Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, and William Empson among others.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

" Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as ' Old Bloomsbury ' Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, with Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell, and David Garnett as later additions ".

E. M. Forster followed his successful novels with Maurice which he could not publish because it treated homosexuality untragically.

Clive Bell published an appeasement pamphlet ( he later supported the war ), and E. M. Forster wrote an early version of his famous essay “ What I Believe ” with its choice, still shocking for some, of personal relations over patriotism: his quiet assertion in the face of the increasingly totalitarian claims of both left and right that " personal relations ... love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the claims of the State ".

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

Forster was a central figure of the Enlightenment in Germany, and corresponded with most of its adherents, including his close friend Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

From the time in Kassel on, Forster was in active correspondence with important figures of the Enlightenment, including Lessing, Herder, Wieland and Goethe.

Forster's closest friend, Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, arrived in Kassel shortly after Forster, and both were soon involved with the Rosicrucians in Kassel.

However, by 1783 Forster saw that his involvement with the Rosicrucians not only led him away from real science, but also deeper into debt ( it is said he was not good at money ); for these reason Forster was happy to accept a proposal by the Polish Komisja Edukacji Narodowej ( Commission of National Education ) and became Chair of Natural History at Vilnius University in 1784.

From his London years, Forster was in contact with Sir Joseph Banks, the initiator of the Bounty expedition and a participant in Cook's first journey.

Based on a decree by Emperor Francis II inflicting punishments on German subjects who collaborated with the French revolutionary government, Forster was declared an outlaw in the name of the Emperor ( under the Reichsacht ), a prize of 100 ducats was set on his head and he could not return to Germany.

* In the E. M. Forster novel A Room with a View, Lucy Honeychurch is carried to " some steps in the Uffizi Arcade " by George Emerson, when she faints after witnessing a murder in the Piazza della Signoria.

The other writer is E. M. Forster, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

In the 1930s and 1940s Forster became a successful broadcaster on BBC Radio and a public figure associated with the Union of Ethical Societies.

Other writers with whom Forster associated included the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the Belfast-based novelist Forrest Reid.

From 1925 until his mother's death at age 90 on 11 March 1945, Forster lived with her at West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, finally leaving on or around 23 September 1946.

Forster connects personal relationships with the politics of colonialism through the story of the Englishwoman Adela Quested, the Indian Dr. Aziz, and the question of what did or did not happen between them in the Marabar Caves.

This portrait of Alexandria during the first half of the twentieth century includes a biographical account of E. M. Forster, his life in the city, his relationship with Constantine Cavafy, and his influence on Lawrence Durrell.

Humboldt's passion for travel was confirmed by a friendship formed at Göttingen with Georg Forster, Heyne's son-in-law and the companion of Captain James Cook on Cook's second voyage.

At the end of the first season, Jeremy Gelbwaks ' family moved out of the Los Angeles area, and the part of Chris was recast with actor Brian Forster.

These were bequeathed with over 18, 000 books to the museum in 1876 by John Forster.

Virginia Woolf was writing and publishing her most widely-read modernist novels and essays, E. M. Forster completed A Passage to India which remains the most highly regarded novel on British imperialism in India.

Hart-Davis organised fund-raising on a grand scale, including an auction, with E. M. Forster offering the manuscript of A Passage to India, and T. S. Eliot, a duplicate manuscript of The Waste Land.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

Jeffrey Meyers, in a 1975 guide to Orwell's work, wrote of the E. M. Forster connection that, " Burmese Days was strongly influenced by A Passage to India, which was published in 1924 when Orwell was serving in Burma.

It was here that he befriended English author E. M. Forster ( A Passage to India ) and Cambridge don G. L.

Haldane, Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan, and E. M. Forster, whose A Passage to India he secured the publication of, according to Shashi Tharoor.

* E. M. Forster and his World ( 1978 ) – a biography of the author of A Passage to India and Howards End

* A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster, edited by Pankaj Mishra ( Penguin Classics, 2005 )

He went on to appear in nearly 20 Broadway productions over the next four decades, including a 1962 adaptation of E. M. Forster ’ s Passage to India and a 1985 revival of The Iceman Cometh.

Forster spent a second spell in India in the early 1920s as the private secretary to Tukojirao III, the Maharajah of Dewas.

* Singh, K. Natwar, Editor, E. M. Forster: A Tribute, With Selections from his Writings on India, Contributors: Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, Narayana Menon, Raja Rao & Santha Rama Rau, ( On Forster's Eighty Fifth Birthday ), Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., New York, 1 January 1964.

Her view of India is different than that of Naipaul or E. M. Forster.

This enabled him to work closely with several well-known Christian leaders in the UK and other countries, notably Bakht Singh of India, Watchman Nee of China, Roger Forster of Forest Hill, Stephen Kaung of Richmond, Virginia and Lance Lambert of Jerusalem, Israel.

Thereafter Besant continued to write voluminously by himself, his main novels being All in a Garden Fair ( which Rudyard Kipling credited in Something of Myself with inspiring him to leave India and make a career as a writer ), Dorothy Forster ( his own favorite ), Children of Gibeon, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men.

He had a wide further range of social connections: George Santayana from 1905 ; Isaac Rosenberg ; Bernard Berenson ; Bertrand Russell ; G. E. Moore ; E. M. Forster with whom he and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson travelled to India in 1912.

Forster was born in Madras, India, the son of Thomas Forster, army surgeon, and his wife Eliza Blaxland, daughter of Gregory Blaxland.