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

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by Wendy Moffat


  Harrogate Turkish baths (Yorkshire), 112, 114

  Harvard University, 259, 268–70

  Heard, Gerald, 205, 218, 260, 314

  Hellenism, 45–46, 65, 66

  Hemingway, Ernest, 285

  Henry V, King, 40

  Henry VI, King, 40

  Hepburn, Alexander, 100

  Hephaestion, 125

  Hervey (schoolmaster), 31–32, 34, 37

  “Hidden Things” (Cavafy), 146

  Hill of Devi, The (Forster), 303

  Hindoo Holiday (Ackerley), 197

  Hindus, 89, 109, 110, 180, 183, 185, 205, 288, 289

  Hirschfeld, Magnus, 14, 15, 166, 290

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 207

  “Hitchhiker, The” (Windham), 273

  Hitler, Adolf, 233, 240, 241

  Hockney, David, 7

  Hogarth Press, 3, 147, 192, 224, 225

  Home Office, British, 307

  Homer, Winslow, 260

  Homosexual Law Reform Society, 309

  Hopkins, Daisy, 48

  House of Lords, 306

  House Un-American Activities Committee, 17

  Housman, E. A., 50, 72, 91, 94, 215

  Howards End (Forster), 5, 7–8, 28, 64, 84, 152, 189, 204, 230, 330n

  epigraph of, 190

  Lawrence’s response to, 120

  narrator of, 165

  publication of, 6, 104

  review of, 104–105

  sales of, 104, 106

  sympathetic portrayal of female characters in, 38, 48, 87, 99–100

  Huntington Library (San Marino, California), 323

  Hutchinson (headmaster of Kent House), 36–38

  Huxley, Aldous, 241

  I Am a Camera (Isherwood), 4

  Ibsen, Henrik, 50, 83

  Illustrated London News, 355n

  “Incidents of War” notebook (Forster), 134

  Incitement to Disaffection Act (Sedition Act; 1934), 242

  India, 6, 47, 106–12, 131, 180–87, 271, 288

  Ackerley in, 197

  British repression in, 179, 181

  higher education in, 88–89, 108, 109

  imperial civil service in, 41, 88, 100, 107

  Lawrence in, 213, 214, 239

  Masood’s childhood in, 89

  rebellion of 1857 in, 88, 109

  writers’ conference in, 256

  Indiana University, 288

  Indian Councils Act (1909), 109

  Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 291

  In Memoriam (Tennyson), 52

  Institute for Sexual Science (Berlin), 14, 15

  International Congress of Writers (Paris, 1935), 240–44, 246

  Iraq, 180

  Iron Age, 72

  Isherwood, Christopher, 3–9, 15–20, 246, 250, 292, 295, 305, 322, 360n

  Britten and, 279

  on Cadmus’s portrait of Forster, 296

  correspondence of Forster and, 16, 232, 241, 251, 255–57

  emigration to United States of, 4, 245, 248–49, 260, 284

  envoys sent to England by, 253–54, 276

  first meeting of Forster and, 13–15, 225

  during Forster’s American visits, 270, 272, 291

  in Germany, 15, 233–34

  Kirstein and, 289, 293

  Martinez and, 274

  posthumous publication of Forster’s

  homosexual-themed fiction by, 5, 7–9, 15, 17–20, 213, 304

  visit to Forster at King’s College by, 9, 11–13

  Italy, 47, 58–61, 66, 106

  Ackerley in, 211–12

  Ethiopia invaded by, 240

  Lily in, 57–60, 66, 106

  Masood in, 106

  novels set in, 59, see Room with a View, A

  Where Angels Fear to Tread

  Jailhouse Rock (film), 312

  James, Henry, 78, 94–96

  Japan, 56

  Ackerley in, 317

  Jaspar Tristram (Clarke), 94

  “Jew Consciousness” (Forster), 6, 247

  Jews, Nazi persecution of, 233, 234, 247

  Johnson, Samuel, 215

  Johnson-Hicks, William, 216

  Joyce, James, 144

  Jung, Carl, 273, 278

  Kantara (Egypt), 162, 165

  Keats, John, 48

  Keddy (Dickinson), 94

  Kennedy, Johnny, 271

  Kent House school (Eastbourne), 34–38

  Keynes, John Maynard, 12, 44, 52–55, 62, 66, 128, 201

  King’s College, Cambridge, 5, 40–51, 65, 68, 72, 91, 115, 201, 313, 316, 323

  American visitors to, 296

  Apostles from, 55, 95

  circle of friends from, 66, 81, 100, 130, 148, 155

  class strictures at, 210

  compulsory religious tests abolished by, 41–42

  entrance offered to Forster to, 38, 39, 42

  fellowship for Forster at, 215, 257–58, 260, 301–303

  Hellenism at, 45–46

  history of, 40–41

  intellectual brotherhood at, 85

  memorial service for Dickinson at, 226

  misogyny at, 47–48

  photographs in archives of, 167

  residence in old age of Forster at, 9–13, 316, 321, 322

  rooms occupied by Forster at, 44, 49, 247

  tradition of homosexuality at 10, 46–47, 49

  Wedd’s mentorship of Forster at, 49–51

  Kinsey, Alfred, 288–91, 296, 308

  Kipling, Rudyard, 252

  Kirstein, Fidelma (née Cadmus), 273, 274, 278

  Kirstein, Lincoln, 260, 273, 274, 278, 285, 287, 289, 293, 296, 313, 360n

  Kiss (Warhol), 10

  Kitchener, Lord, 156

  Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 71, 166, 290

  Labouchère Amendment (1885), 10, 33

  Labour Party, British, 306

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 114, 311, 312

  Lancaster, Mark, 9–13, 321

  Lanchester, Elsa, 7

  Laughton, Charles, 7

  Lawrence, D. H., 8, 114, 120–21, 194–95, 200, 227–28, 244, 311, 315

  Lawrence, Frieda, 120, 227–28

  Lawrence, T. E., 14, 180, 192–93, 213–14, 239–40, 245, 269, 293

  “Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love” (Auden), 4

  League of Nations, 55

  Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 98, 337n

  Leavis, F. R., 215

  Lee, Gypsy Rose, 279

  Lehmann, Beatrix, 7

  Lehmann, John, 3–8, 15, 18–20, 213, 225, 242, 250, 304

  Leopold, Nathan, 207

  Letters from John Chinaman and Other Essays (Dickinson), 56

  Lewis, C. Day, 4

  Liberace, 310–11, 362n

  “Life to Come, The” (Forster), 192, 193, 213

  Listener, The (magazine), 280, 301, 304

  “Little Imber” (Forster), 315

  Loeb, Richard, 207

  Lolita (Nabokov), 312

  London, 41, 63, 84, 87, 157, 188, 197, 244

  Ackerley’s Hammersmith Terrace flat in, 202, 204, 219–20, 222, 224

  arrests and prosecutions for homosexual acts in, 18, 305–310

  bohemian, see Bloomsbury Group

  Brunswick Square flat in, 14, 15, 207–209, 220–22, 231–32, 239, 249

  Buckinghams’ house in, 238, 276, 297

  Chiswick flat in, 249, 276, 302, 305

  Cleopatra’s Needle in, 126

  Darling’s wedding in, 100, 101

  Dickinson’s surgery in, 225

  gay scene in, 200, 204–206

  home of Lily and Eddie in, 25, 26

  Kingsley Hotel residence in, 63, 65

  Liberace libel trial in, 310–11

  Masood in, 102–103

  police force of, see Metropolitan Police

  premier of Billy Budd in, 298–99

  Red Cross in, 124–25, 129, 132, 135

  South Kensington flat in, 66–67, 71–72

  suburban, 28

  (see
also specific towns)

  during World War II, 205, 220, 249–51, 262, 260, 271, 275

  London Library, 50, 92, 308

  London Mercury (magazine), 196

  London School of Economics, 63

  Longest Journey, The (Forster), 5, 41, 43, 44, 68, 74, 76, 84, 104, 321

  depiction of Tonbridge School in, 37–38

  misogyny in, 48

  plot synopsis of, 85–86

  publication of, 91

  reviews of, 86, 92

  Los Angeles, 17, 205, 270, 280

  Britten in, 280

  Isherwood in, 4

  Lost Farm (Tyringham, Massachusetts), 268–69, 275, 285

  Louÿs, Pierre, 144, 145

  Lovett, Charles, 201–202, 208–209, 252, 322

  Luard, Colonel C. E., 148

  Lynes, Adelaide, 287

  Lynes, George Platt, 267, 285–87, 292–96, 359n

  MacLeish, Archibald, 284

  Madingley, chalk pit near, 43, 73

  Maeterlinck, Maurice, 50

  Magdalen College, Oxford, 46

  Mahmud, Syed, 89

  Mailer, Norman, 10

  Malanga, Gerard, 10

  Mallarmé, Stéphane, 144

  Malraux, André, 241, 244

  Manchester, 66, 87

  Manchester Guardian, 179

  Mann, Erika, 234

  Mann, Golo, 279

  Mann, Heinrich, 241

  Mann, Thomas, 234, 279, 291

  Mansfield, Katherine, 81

  Mansfield Park (Austen), 79

  Mansourah (Egypt), 159, 169–70, 172, 177, 187, 189

  Mapplethorpe, Robert, 294

  Marcus Aurelius, 126, 151

  Marianne Thornton: A Domestic

  Biography (Forster), 29, 303–304

  Mark Antony, 125, 126, 142

  Martinez, José “Pete,” 260, 273–74, 278

  Marx, Karl, 244

  Masood, Akbar, 220, 322

  Masood, Anwar, 220, 322

  Masood, Syed Ross, 88–91, 95, 102–106, 120, 154, 166, 180

  background of, 88–89

  childhood of, 89

  correspondence of Forster and, 90, 103–104, 130, 131, 147, 148, 165

  death of, 256

  India visits of Forster with, 108, 110, 111, 187

  A Passage to India dedicated to, 190, 195

  Matheson, Hilda, 246

  Matisse, Henri, 52

  Matthews, Theobald, 305, 311

  Maugham, W. Somerset “Willie,” 285

  Maurice (Forster), 64, 114, 120, 146, 161, 192, 194, 292, 296, 319, 330n

  class strictures depicted in, 209–10, 223

  considered “unpublishable” by Forster, 115, 119, 122, 195, 244, 282, 344

  depiction of Cambridge in, 46, 114–15

  dreams in, 31, 61

  ending of, 114, 167–68, 231, 311–12

  euphemism for making love in, 15–16

  Meredith as model for character in, 44, 65, 115

  posthumous publication of, 7–8, 17, 19–20, 213

  responses of friends to, 115–19, 136, 218, 303

  revisions of, 8, 18, 232, 305

  “Terminal Note” to, 309

  The Well of Loneliness compared with, 215

  Maurice, F. D., 64

  Mauron, Charles, 209, 212, 243, 252, 313

  Mauron, Marie, 212

  Maxwell-Fyfe, David, 306

  McCullers, Carson, 279

  Medium, The (Menotti), 259

  Melville, Herman, 263, 281, 282

  Memorial, The (Isherwood), 3, 13

  Menotti, Gian Carlo, 259

  Meredith, Christabel (née Iles), 87, 91, 178

  Meredith, Hugh Owen (“HOM”), 56, 68, 93, 95, 112, 178, 322, 333n

  as Apostle, 52

  at King’s College, 44–45, 49, 51

  at London School of Economics, 63

  love affair of Forster and, 65–66, 120, 313

  marriage of, 65, 83, 87, 91

  at Working Men’s College, 64, 333n

  Merman, Ethel, 259

  Merrill, George, 113, 114, 164, 178, 186, 227

  Merz, Ernest, 100–101, 114, 223

  Message in Code, A (Plomer), 318

  Metropolitan Police (London), 204, 206–207, 254, 306

  Hammersmith Section House of, 206, 218, 221, 226, 237

  Michelangelo, 46, 94

  Milton, John, 50, 247

  Mint, The (Lawrence), 239

  Mirza, Abu Saeed, 110

  Mrs. Miniver (Struther), 245

  Mogul empire, 88

  Mohammed, Prophet, 90

  Monk’s House, 216

  Montagu, Lord, 306–308

  Moore, G. E., 52, 53, 246

  Moore, Marianne, 263, 285, 293

  More, Hannah, 28

  Morell, Ottoline, 120

  Morgenroth, Achille, 212, 252

  Morison, Theodore, 88, 89, 110

  Morning Post, 92

  Morris, John, 250, 322

  Morris, William, 113

  Mortimer, Raymond, 205

  Mosley, Oswald, 233

  Mother Courage (Brecht), 234

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 205

  Mulhocaway Farm (New Jersey), 292

  Munich Crisis, 245

  Museum of Modern Art (New York), 273, 287, 289

  Muslims, 88–90, 108–11, 154, 158–60, 180

  Mussolini, Benito, 240

  My Days and Dreams (Carpenter), 165

  My Dog Tulip (Ackerley), 317, 319

  My Father and Myself (Ackerley), 197,

  Napoleon, Emperor of the French, 129

  Napoleonic Code, 128, 160

  Nassenheide (Germany), 81–82, 121

  Nation, The (magazine), 252

  National Council for Civil Liberties, 242

  National Gallery (London), 275

  Nazis, 14, 15, 234, 247, 306

  Enigma code of, 18

  Neddermeyer, Heinz, 15–17, 233

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 129

  New Writing (Lehmann), 4

  New York City, 17, 259–68, 272–74, 277

  Buckingham in, 283, 284, 286–96

  Cleopatra’s Needle in, 126

  Stonewall riots in, 6, 21, 263

  during World War II, 252–53, 279

  New York City Ballet, 287, 293

  New Yorker, The, 262

  North and South (Gaskell), 83

  “Notes on the English Character” (Forster), 30

 

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