by Wendy Moffat
Cavafy, Constantine, 140–49, 161
Cavafy, Paul, 142
“Celestial Omnibus, The” (Forster), 94–95
Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories, The (Forster), 68, 120
Ceylon, 106
imperial civil service in, 41, 50
Cézanne, Paul, 52, 69
Chagall, Marc, 285, 287
Charlton, General L.E.O. “Leo,” 205, 209, 219
Chatto and Windus publishers, 203
Chauncey, George, 345n
Chhatarpur, maharajah of, 109–10, 185–86, 197, 236
Chicago, University of, 285
China, 56
Isherwood in, 245
Christ College, Cambridge, 88
Christianity, 32–34, 37, 44–45, 65, 70, 117, 158–59
evangelical, 27
socialist idealism and, 64
Churchill, Winston, 239, 240
Clapham, Charles, 272
Clapham Sect, 27
Clarke, A. E., 94
Cleopatra, 125, 126
Cleveland Street scandal, 33
Clouds Hill (Dorset), 193, 239, 269
Cocteau, Jean, 285, 286
Coke, Desmond, 94
Coley, Tom, 259–62, 270, 283, 298
Columbia University, 260
Communists, 233, 242
Companion of Honour award, 301
Comstock laws, 17–18
Copland, Aaron, 269
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), 264
Corydon (Gide), 243
Courbet, Gustave, 287
Covent Garden (London), 103, 298
Coventry, Buckinghams’ home in, 305, 315, 321, 322
Coward, Noel, 207
Crabbe, George, 280, 282
Crevel, René, 241
Crisp, Quentin, 305
Crown Court, 48
Crozier, Eric, 281, 283, 297, 298
Cuneo, Cyrus, 355n
Curzon, Lord, 46–47, 109
Daily Mail, 124, 306
Daily Mirror, 310–11
Daily Telegraph, 104
Daley, Harry, 204–207, 209–11, 218–21, 223, 224, 231, 309–10, 317
Darling, Josie, 108, 121–22
Darling, Malcolm, 121, 180, 182, 301, 303
correspondence of Forster and, 131–32, 140, 225–26
at King’s College, 49
in India, 49, 100, 106, 108, 110, 181, 256
marriage of, 68, 83, 100–101
Day, Charlie, 212, 252
Defense of the Realm Act (1914), 121, 179
“Den, The” (Forster), 139
Denmark, 212
Dent, Edward, 49, 59, 65, 84, 112
correspondence of Forster and, 58, 63, 77, 86, 87, 94, 119
at King’s College, 49, 201
Dewas (India), 109, 110, 180–87
Dickens, Charles, 83
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (“Goldie”), 84, 133, 161, 178, 188, 192, 232
Ackerley and, 203–204
as Apostle, 55
biography by Forster of, 55–56, 228–30
Carpenter and, 113
correspondence of Forster and, 58, 104, 125–26, 136, 144, 147, 161, 164, 166, 184–85
death of, 225–27, 235, 296
fountain at King’s College in memory of, 302
Howards End characters modeled on family of, 100
on India trip, 106–108, 110
at King’s College, 11, 47, 50, 246
Maurice criticized by, 116–17
pacifist response to World War I of, 123
unrequited loves of, 114
Dickinson, H. N., 94
Diderot, Denis, 241
Digby, Harry, 252
“Dr. Woolacott” (Forster), 194, 213
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 83, 220
Donne, John, 252
Don’t! (etiquette book), 30, 257
Double Lives (Plomer), 318
Douglas, Alfred Lord, 46
Douglas, James, 215
Dowland, Agnes, 78, 112, 191, 199, 237, 238, 255, 257, 301
Dowsing, George, 252
Dreiser, Theodore, 263
Dublin Castle scandal, 33
Duffy, Eamon, 316
Dunne, Bruce W., 341n
Dwyer, Bill, 272
Eastbourne, Kent House school in, 34–38
East India Company, 88
Ecclesiastical Commission, 251
Edinburgh University, 57, 178
Edmiston, Tom, 295
Egypt, 6, 41, 178, 187–88, 271
British repression in, 178–79, 181–82
see also Alexandria
Egyptian Boy Scout League, 341n
Egyptian Mail, 138
Egyptian Native Penal Code, 128
Eliot, George, 69
Eliot, T. S., 216, 269–70
Elizabeth II, Queen, 301–302
Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Arnim), 81
Ellis, Havelock, 70
Elsden, Jane, 48
Emmanual College, Cambridge, 303
Enchanted April (Arnim), 81
“Entrance to an Unwritten Novel” (Forster), 304
Epipsychidion (Shelley), 84–85
“Eternal Moment, The” (Forster), 68
Eternal Moment and Other Stories, The (Forster), 214
Ethiopia, Italian invasion of, 240
Eton College, 40, 41, 46–49
Fabians, 49
Factory, the (New York), 10
Faisal ibn Hussein, King of Iraq, 180
Farrer, Lord, 237
Fascists, 233
Faulkner, William, 291
Festival of Britain, 279
Field, William, 306
Figsbury Rings (Wiltshire), 72–76, 299, 320–21
Fire Island, 267, 294
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 285
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), 308
Fleet’s In, The (Cadmus), 264
Fleming, Ian, 250
“Flood in the Office, A” (Forster), 244
Ford, Ford Madox, 285
Forster, Alice Clara (“Lily,” née Whichelo mother), 25–37, 42, 45, 68, 83, 104, 105, 119, 173, 181, 199, 208–10, 277, 304
birth of son of, 26
childhood and adolescence of, 27
correspondence of Forster and, 50, 81–82, 94, 96, 108, 126, 135, 235, 303
death of, 254–58, 270, 355n
Forster’s childhood relationship with, 29–30, 32, 33, 36, 48
and Forster’s education, 31, 34–35, 37
Harrogate water cure of, 112
in Italy, 57–60, 66, 106
London residences, 63, 71–72, 77, 78
Marianne Thornton dedicated to memory of, 304
marriage of, 25
at Rooksnest, 28–29, 31, 37, 87
Tonbridge Wells house of, 44
Virginia Woolf on, 213
at West Hackhurst, 191, 199, 212, 214, 222, 237–38
Weybridge house of, 78, 83, 88, 106, 162, 178, 191, 199
widowhood of, 26
in Wiltshire with Maimie, 72, 75
during World War I, 125, 126, 165
during World War II, 248, 251
Forster, E. M. (“Morgan”): Abinger home of, see West Hackhurst
in Alexandria, 123–73
as Apostle, 52–56, 233
atheism of, 41, 45, 313–14
authorized biography of, 316–19, 323
BBC radio talks of, 246–48
birth of, 26
blackmail attempt on, 217–18
British repression in Egypt denounced by, 178–80
Britten’s collaboration with, 278–83, 297–99
Buckingham’s love affair with, 220–24, 230–33, 276, 299, 315
and Buckingham’s marriage, 226–28
Cadmus influenced by, 252–53, 277–78
Carpenter’s influence on, 112–14, 230
in Cavafy’s salon, 140–47
childhood of, 26, 28–34
Com
monplace Book of, 79, 200, 232, 256–57, 257–58
Daley’s affair with, 205–207, 209–11, 218–19
death of, 5, 6, 18, 21, 321–22
deaths of friends of, 225–28, 312–14, 319
dreams of, 32, 61, 138, 258
education of, 34–52
and el Adl’s death, 177, 187–89, 196
el Adl’s love affair with, 152–73
enigmatic personality of, 11–12
family background of, 26–28
family relationship of Buckinghams and, 231, 238–39, 268, 277
at Figsbury Rings, 72–76, 320–21
final years of, 9–11, 13, 301–303, 315–21
financial generosity of, 210–11, 276, 307, 317, 318
in France, 87, 102, 204–44
in Germany, 81–83, 121
in Greece, 66
Housman’s influence on, 72, 91, 94, 215
homosexual identity of, 70–71, 117–18
honored by Queen Elizabeth, 301–302
in India, 106–12, 180–87, 256, 303
International Congress of Writers address of, 240–44
Incidents of War notebook of, 134
initiation into London gay scene of, 196–98, 200, 202–213
in Italy, 57–61, 63
James and, 94–96
King’s College residential fellowship of, 257–58, 276
at Lady Chatterly’s Lover obscenity trial of, 311
libel suit against, 244–45
and Liberace libel trial, 310–11
and Lily’s death, 254–56
Lily’s relationship with, 29–33, 105–106, 178, 213, 222, 235, 237
literary executors of, 19
Locked Diary of, 102, 223, 230
London residences of, 14, 15, 63, 65–67, 71–72, 207–209, 220–22, 231–32, 239, 249, 276, 302, 305
Masood’s friendship with, 90–91, 102–106, 108–12, 120
mentoring of Isherwood by, 13–15
Meredith’s love affair with, 65–66
and Merz’s suicide, 100–101, 114, 223
Palmer’s love affair with, 198–200, 302
poetry of, 96–97
and police crackdowns on homosexuals, 307–10
portraits of, 106, 274, 275, 278, 287, 294–96
posthumous publication of gay fiction of, 5, 7–9, 15, 17–20, 192, 199–200, 213, 304, 319
prostate surgeries of, 235–37, 296–97
Sex Diary of, 31, 35–36, 38, 39
sexual anxiety of, 62, 75, 102, 103, 140, 249, 273
sexual awakening of, 148–51
T. E. Lawrence and, 192–93, 213–14, 239–40
in United States, 259–75, 283–96
Well of Loneliness defended by, 215–17, 311
Weybridge home of, see Harnham
Whitman’s influence on, 93–94, 98, 117
will of, 322, 323
Working Men’s College students of, 64–65, 100
works of, see specific titles
as World War I Red Cross volunteer, 123–25, 129–30, 132–35, 140, 146, 151, 152
during World War II, 248–54, 258, 270–71, 290, 314–15
in Zimbabwe, 300
Forster, Edward Morgan (“Eddie” father), 25–29, 34, 41, 72, 105, 191, 237
Forster, Henry (uncle), 26
Forster, Laura (aunt), 25, 51, 57, 79, 104, 191, 195, 199, 204, 237, 303
Forster, William (uncle), 57
Foucault, Michel, 161
Four Quartets (Eliot), 270
France, 87
colonial rule of Alexandria by, 126
Lawrences in, 120
in World War I, 197
Wescott and Wheeler in, 285
see also Paris
Franck, César, 204
Franco, Francisco, 240
Franklyn, Frank, 87
French, Jared “Jerry,” 253, 260, 263, 265–68, 273, 274, 277, 278, 294
French, Margaret (née Hoening), 253, 260, 263, 266–68, 274, 277, 278, 305
Freud, Sigmund, 71, 161, 290
Fry, Roger, 12, 52, 106, 113, 116, 230
Fuad University, 341n
Furbank, Nick, 303, 304, 317–21, 323
Furness, Robert “Robin,” 128–31, 137, 152, 155, 162, 163, 341n, 344n
Furse, Katherine, 308–309
Gainsborough, Thomas, 292
Gandhi, Mohandas, 182
García Lorca, Federico, 4
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 83
Gellert, Roger, 252
George V, King, 109
Germany, 81–82
economic depression in, 240
Nazi rise to power in, 15, 233–34, 240, 247
in World War I, 121, 197
see also Berlin
Ghalib, 90
“Ghosts” (Ackerley), 196
Gide, André, 17, 144, 241, 243–44
Giehse, Therese, 234
Gielgud, John, 18, 202, 306
Giese, Karl, 14, 15
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin), 312
Giroux, Robert, 262
Goebbels, Joseph, 246
Golding, William, 321
Goldsmith, Ruth, 78, 87, 112
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (Forster), 229–30
Gosse, Edmund, 38
Government of Egypt, The (white paper), 180
Graham, Martha, 269
Grange school (Stevenage), 31–32, 34, 37
Grant, Duncan, 12, 70, 135, 205, 225
Grant Duff, Victoria, 125, 132, 135, 137, 141, 163
Greece, 47, 60, 66
ancient, 45–46, 70
Greek Hospital (Alexandria), 146
Greek View of Life, The (Dickinson), 56
Green, Julian, 285
Hall, Radclyffe, 215–17, 311
Hallam, Arthur, 52
Hamilton, Patrick, 207
Hamilton College, 260, 283, 284, 356n
Hampson, John, see Simpson, Johnny
Handmaid’s Tale, The (Atwood), 315
Hanley, James, 242
Harcourt, Brace & Company, 262
Hardy, Thomas, 83
Harnham (Weybridge), 87, 120, 177, 178, 188, 198, 207, 211–12
Fry’s portrait of Forster in drawing room at, 106
living expenses in, 163
Masood at, 88
naming of, 78
move from London to, 77–78
move to West Hackhurst from, 191, 199
Harris, Frank, 102
