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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