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A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster

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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

 

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