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Reid was, along with Hugh Walpole and J.M. Barrie, a leading pre-war British novelist of boyhood. He is still acclaimed as the greatest of Ulster novelists. He entered Christ's College Cambridge in 1905, and was influenced there by the novelist E.M. Forster. After graduation Forster continued to visit Reid, who was then settled back in Belfast. It was to Reid that Forster felt able to write about the loss of his beloved Charles Mauron in the Second World War. In 1952 Forster travelled to Belfast to unveil a plaque commemorating Forrest Reid's life (at 13 Ormiston Crescent). Sir Hugh Walpole, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941) was an English novelist. ... Sir James Matthew Barrie, Baronet, Scottish author Sir James Matthew Barrie, Baronet (May 9, 1860 - June 19, 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... Christs College is a name shared by several educational establishments. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after Oxford). ... Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

As well as his fiction, Reid also translated poems from the Greek Anthology (Greek Authors (Faber, 1943)). His study of the work of W.B. Yeats (W.B. Yeats: A Critical Study (1915)) has been acclaimed as one of the best critical studies of that poet. He also wrote the definitive work on the English woodcut artists of the 1860s; his collection of original illustrations from that time are housed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Ancient and Byzantine periods of Greek Literature. ... Faber may mean Faber and Faber, the publishers; a firm making pencils an Argentinian artist a character from Fahrenheit 451. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A woodcut is a method of printing in which an image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with chisels. ... Events and trends Italian unification under King Victor Emmanuel II. Wars for expansion and national unity continue until the incorporation of the Papal States (March 17, 1861 - September 20, 1870). ... The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England is the worlds first university museum. ... This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ...

He was a close friend of Walter de la Mare, whom he first met in 1913, and about whose fiction he published a perceptive book in 1929. Reid was also an influence on novelist Stephen Gilbert, and had good connections to the Bloomsbury Group of writers. Reid was a founding member of the Imperial Art League (later the Artists League of Great Britain). Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist, probably best remembered (though not necessarily justly so) for his works for children. ... Stephen Gilbert (born 1910) is a painter, born in Fife, Scotland. ... The Bloomsbury group or Bloomsbury Set or just Bloomsbury as its adherents (members is probably too formal a designation) would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II. The group began as an informal social assembly...

A 'Forrest Reid Collection' is held at the University of Exeter, England; consisting of first editions of all his works and books about Reid. Many of his original manuscripts are in the archives of the Belfast Central Library. The University of Exeter is the principal University in the English city of Exeter, in Devon. ...

Fiction

• A Garden by the Sea (1918). (Stories).
• The Kingdom of Twilight (1904).
• The Garden God - a Tale of Two Boys (1905).
• The Bracknels - a Family Chronicle (1911), revised as Denis Bracknel (1947).
• Following Darkness (1912) (An inspiration for James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man).
• The Gentle Lover - A Comedy of Middle Age (1913).
• At the Door of the Gate (1915).
• The Spring Song (1916).
• Pirates of the Spring (1919).
• Pender among the Residents (1922).
• Demophon - a Traveller's Tale (1927).
• Uncle Stephen (1931).
• Brian Westby (1934).
• The Retreat (1936).
• Peter Waring (1937).
• Young Tom (1944).

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Further reading

• Paul Goldman & Brian Taylor. Retrospective Adventures: Forrest Reid, Author and Collector (Scholar Press, 1998).

• Colin Cruise. 'Error & Eros: The Fiction of Forrest Reid'. IN: Sex, Nation & Dissent (Cork University Press, 1997)

• The Green Avenue: the life and writings of Forrest Reid (Cambridge University Press, 1980).

• Russell Burlingham. Forrest Reid: A Portrait & a Study (Faber, 1953);

• Apostate (1926), and Private Road (1940). (Reid's two-part autobiography).

• Eamonn Hughes. Ulster of the Senses (an essay about Reid's autobiography). IN: Fortnight 306 (May 1992).