E.M. Forster: Aspects of Austen
"I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen."
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I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say, of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess.
E.M. Forster1
E.M. Forster (1879-1970), an English fiction writer and essayist, was one of the founding members of the Bloomsbury Group. In 1901, while studying Classics and History at the University of Cambridge, he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual debating society. Several years later Forster, and several other members of the Apostles, formed the Thursday Club - a weekly salon that came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group.