Dickens ' letters home to his friends, including illustrator Daniel Maclise and John Forster, helped to form the basis of the book.

It obtained immediate recognition, making Forster a prominent figure in a distinguished circle of literary men which included Leigh Hunt, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Albany Fonblanque, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.

Also in 1836, Landor met John Forster who became his biographer, having become friends after Forster's review of his " Shakespeare ".

Landor received a visit from his son Arnold in 1842 and in that year wrote a long essay on Catullus for Forster who was editor of " Foreign Quarterly Review " and followed it up with The Idylls of Theocritus.

Forster objected to the inclusion of some Latin poetry, and so Landor published his most important Latin work ` Poemata et Inscriptiones ' separately in 1847.

Forster persuaded Landor to apologise.

* John Forster The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor ( 8 vols., 1846

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.

Forster has been criticised for refraining from publishing details of Dickinson's sexual proclivities, including his foot fetishism and unrequited love for young men.

In 1839 Landor's attempts to publish the plays were caught up in a dispute between Bentley and Dickens and Forster which caused considerable delay.

Other Alexander triumphs included The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, by Pinero ( 1893 ); The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope ( 1896 ); As You Like It ( 1896 ); Much Ado About Nothing ( 1898 ); Paolo and Francesca, by Stephen Phillips ( 1902 ); If I were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy ( 1902 ); Old Heidelberg, by Meyer Forster and Bleichmann ( 1903 ) and His House in Order, by Pinero ( 1906 ), to name only a few of the plays still remembered.

He plays Forster, one of Billy's crueler bosses.

In the preface to his Collected Short Stories ( 1947 ), Forster wrote that " The Machine Stops is a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. G.

* Works by E. M. Forster at Internet Archive ( scanned early editions illustrated )

A letter from Dickens to Forster on 26 July 1846 shows the major details of the plot and theme already substantially worked out.

The first section, between Leeds and Bradford ( Forster Square station ), was opened by the Leeds and Bradford Railway on 1 July 1846.

Ulrich and Gräfin Faustine, both published in 1841, mark the culmination of her power ; but Sigismund Forster ( 1843 ), Cecil ( 1844 ), Sibylle ( 1846 ) and Maria Regina ( 1860 ) also obtained considerable popularity.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Aldini's most famous public demonstrations of the electro-stimulation technique of deceased limbs was performed on the executed criminal George Forster at Newgate in London in 1803.

While it is true that Aldini did do these attempts at human reanimation during the same time of Shelley's writings, and Forster execution was a sensational notice in the public venue, there is no specific reference that Shelley did actually adapt Aldini into her works despite obviously being aware of Aldini's experiments which were done in public at the Royal College of Physicians in 1803.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

The Little Penguin was first described by German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster in 1781.

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 ”.

Though unaware of the British intention to settle Norfolk Island, which was not announced until 5 December 1786, Forster referred to “ the nearness of New Zealand ; the excellent flax plant ( Phormium ) that grows so abundantly there ; its incomparable shipbuilding timber ”, as among the advantages of the new colony.

An idealised vision of the new British settlement was given in the novel by Therese Forster, Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland on a Voyage to New Holland, published in the German women ’ s magazine, Flora for 1793 and 1794:

In the last two decades of the 18th century polygenism, the belief that different races had evolved separately in each continent and shared no common ancestor, was advocated in England by historian Edward Long and anatomist Charles White, in Germany by ethnographers Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster, and in France by Julien-Joseph Virey, and prominently in the US by Samuel Morton, Josiah Nott and Louis Agassiz.

Valkyrie was a UK role-playing magazine published by Partisan Press and edited originally by Dave Renton ( original editor of Role Player Independent ) and then taken over by Jay Forster.

The Bloomsbury Group — or Bloomsbury Set — was an enormously influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

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.

Johann Georg Adam Forster ( November 27, 1754 – January 10, 1794 ) was a German-Polish naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary.

As a result of the report Forster was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two and came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

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

During July 1793 and while he was in Paris as a delegate of the young Mainz Republic, Prussian and Austrian coalition forces regained control of the city and Forster was declared an outlaw.

Georg Forster was born in the small village of Nassenhuben ( Mokry Dwór ) near Danzig ( Gdańsk ), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

He was the oldest of seven surviving children of Johann Reinhold Forster and Justina Elisabeth ( née Nicolai ).

The young Forster, only thirteen years old, published his first book: an English translation of Lomonosov's history of Russia, which was well received in scientific circles.

Georg Forster joined his father in the expedition again and was appointed as a draughtsman to his father.

Forster wrote well-polished German prose, which was not only scientifically accurate and objective, but also exciting and easy to read.

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

In the 1980s, Wendy Smith became the head of Fine Art and employed Noel Forster, John Hilliard, Cornelia Parker, Gavin Jantjes and Ian McKeever.

The new species, Rapetosaurus krausei, was described in the August 2, 2001 issue of the scientific journal Nature, by Kristina Curry Rogers ( then a graduate student under Catherine Forster and now employed by Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minnesota ) and Catherine A. Forster, an Associate Professor at the Department of Anatomical Sciences of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in Stony Brook, New York.

It is probably true that Hitler calls Albert Forster " Bubi ", which is a common nickname employed by homosexuals in addressing their partners.

At the peak of construction activity on the Long Grove site in 1905 about 1, 100 men were employed, around 900 of them recruited from the London unemployed and brought down from Waterloo daily in special trains, half their 4 shilling ( 20 pence ) return fare being paid by building contractor Forster & Dicksee.