Forster
[fawr-ster] /ˈfɔr stər/
noun
1.
E(dward) M(organ) 1879–1970, English novelist.
/ˈfɔːstə/
noun
1.
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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