Data compiled from Yale Modernism Lab and from J.H. Stape’s An E.M. Forster Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993.
| 1901 | Forster delivers first paper, “Are Crocodiles the Best of Animals?” to the Apostles May 4 1901 Forster leaves for extensive tour of Italy October 3 1901 |
| 1902 | Forster breaks right arm in falling down stairs at St. Peter’s in Rome February 2 1902 Forster returns to England after almost a year away September 1902 |
| 1903 | Forster travels to Italy and Greece once again March 1903 Forster, “Malcolnia Shops,” in the Independent Review November 1903 Forster, “Albergo Empedocle,” Forster’s first published story, appears in Temple Bar December 1903 |
| 1904 | Forster, “A Day Off” May 14, 1904 Forster lunches with Leonard Woolf before Woolf leaves for a posting in Ceylon October 31, 1904 |
| 1905 | Forster reads Chapman’s Homer, then the original in Greek May 3, 1905 Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, October 3, 1905 |
| 1906 | Forster, “Literary Eccentrics: A Review,” October 1906 Forster reads “Is Pessimism in Modern Literature to be Deplored?” to Working Men’s College Old Students’ Club, December 1, 1906 |
| 1907 | Forster, The Longest Journey, April 16, 1907 Forster tours Wordsworth’s Lake District July-August 1907 Forster completes unpublished play, The Deceased Wife’s Husband December 22, 1907 |
| 1908 | Forster begins brainstorming for Howards End June 26, 1908 Forster, A Room with a View October 14, 1908 Forster reads the Koran December 20, 1908 |
| 1909 | Forster, “Other Kingdom,” July 1909 Forster begins a journal, the so-called “Locked Journal,” that he will continue writing in for nearly sixty years September 15, 1909 Forster begins reading War and Peace October 20, 1909 |
| 1910 | Forster reads Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in French April 1, 1910 Forster finishes writing Howards End July 31, 1910 Forster, Howards End October 18, 1910 Forster reads “The Feminine Note in Literature” to a Bloomsbury group that includes Roger Fry and Virginia Woolf December 9, 1910 Forster discusses Conrad’s Lord Jim with John Galsworthy December 18, 1910 |
| 1911 | Forster begins to write stories on homoerotic themes for private amusement June 16, 1911 Forster, “The Point of It” November 1911 |
| 1912 | Forster embarks from Naples for a trip to Bombay October 7, 1912 Forster arrives in India, where he travels until April of the next year October 22, 1912 |
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| 1914 | Forster attends dinner party with Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, and Roger Fry July 22, 1914 Britain declares war on Germany August 1, 1914 Forster reviews Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Poems of Problems and H. Fielding Hall’s Love August 8, 1914 Forster begins work as a cataloguer of pictures at the National Gallery August 22, 1914 Forster arranges to teach English Classes at Working Men’s College September 1914 Forster hosts Belgian war refugee at W. Hackhurst September 1914 Forster, review of Tagore’s autobiography November 11, 1914 Forster delivers a series of lectures, entitled “Literature and the War,” to the Weybridge Literary Society November or December 1914 Forster, “Iron Horses in India” December 1914 Forster circulates Maurice December 1914 Forster, review of Samuel Butler’s essays December 14, 1914 |
| 1915 | Forster meets D.H. Lawrence January 21, 1915 Forster reviews Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out April 8, 1915 Forster, “The Functions of Literature in War-time” March 1915 Forster reviews Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out for Daily News and Leader April 8, 1915 Forster reviews a translation of Chekhov’s stories July 24, 1915 Forster leaves for Egypt, where he will serve as a “searcher,” looking for missing soldiers November 7, 1915 |
| 1916 | Forster, on leave, makes an excursion to the Pyramids January 15, 1916 Forster writes to Edward Carpenter of his “physical loneliness,” which is preventing him from writing April 12, 1916 Forster reads Henry James’s What Maisie Knew August 1916 |
| 1917 | Forster’s friendship with Mohammed el-Adl turns into a love affair May-June 1917 Forster, “Gippo English” December 16, 1917 |
| 1918 | Forster, “Alexandria Vignettes: Cotton from the Outside” February 3, 1918 Forster, “A Little Trip” August 31, 1918 World War I ends November 11, 1918 |
| 1919 | Forster, “The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy” April 25, 1919 Forster, “St. Athanasius” May 23, 1919 Virginia Woolf describes E. M. Forster as a “vaguely rambling butterfly” in her diary July 24, 1919 Forster reviews May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier July 30, 1919 Forster reviews new translation of Dostoevsky’s stories November 11, 1919 |
| 1920 | Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread—first American edition January 10, 1920 First installment of Forster’s “Literary Notes” in Daily Herald April 14, 1920 Forster, “Hymn Before Action” June 1920 Forster, The Government of Egypt July/August 1920 |
| 1921 | Forster reviews J. Middleton Murry’s Aspects of Literature January 9, 1921 Forster sails for Bombay once again March 4, 1921 Forster briefly visits el Adl March 16, 1921 Forster, “Salute to the Orient!” July 1921 |
| 1922 | El Adl is diagnosed with incurable tuberculosis February 6, 1922 Forster burns erotic stories as he focuses on Passage to India April 8, 1922 Forster, “Another Little War” October 9, 1922 Forster, Egypt: A History and Guide December 1922 |
| 1923 | Forster, Pharos and Pharillon May 15, 1923 Forster, “Pan” July 1923 Woolf and E.M. Forster discuss how he is not a novelist September 11, 1923 |
| 1924 | Forster, A Passage to India June 4, 1924 |
| 1925 | Forster, “The Novels of Virginia Woolf,” in the New Criterion November 27, 1925 |
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| 1927 | Woolf, “The Novels of E.M. Forster,” in the Atlantic Monthly February 12, 1927 Forster, Aspects of the Novel 1927 |
| 1928 | Forster writes to Siegfried Sassoon, discussing Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man December 17, 1928 |
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| 1934 | Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson 1934 |
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| 1936 | Forster, Abinger Harvest 1936 |