by Wendy Moffat
Nottingham, University of, 201
Nottingham Lace (Forster), 60
Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, 306
“Obelisk, The” (Forster), 194
Observer, The, 318
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 259
Oliver, Edith, 260, 262
“On Bicycling” (Forster), 50
“On Grinds” (Forster), 50
Order of Merit, 302
Orientalism, 15, 111, 112, 130
Orton, Joe, 4
Orwell, George, 4
Osborne, John, 4
“Other Boat, The” (Forster), 304
Ottoman Empire, see Turkey
Our Town (Wilder), 261
Ovid, 61
Oxford University, 88, 90, 202, 220
Palmer, Bess, 198–200, 207, 217, 222
Palmer, Reg, 198–200, 204, 252, 276, 302
bequest to, 322
intellectual limitations of, 198, 209, 211
marriage of, 198–99, 207, 217, 222
mixed-race background of, 198, 218, 271
Pargas, Stephen, 343n
Paris, 29, 179
Buckingham in, 239;
Masood in, 102
Wescott and Wheeler in, 285
writers’ congress in, 240–44, 246
Parliament, British, 19, 27, 33, 48, 309
Passage to India, A (Forster), 5, 8, 84, 126, 186, 188, 191, 192, 194, 213, 304
dedication of, 190, 195
publication of, 6, 195, 198, 214, 262, 282
public voice in, 36
real-life experiences refigured in, 108, 110, 137, 154, 330n
Pasternak, Boris, 241
Pears, Peter, 278–81, 283, 297
Penguin Press, 311
Perlin, Bernard, 275
“Pessimism in Literature” (Forster), 84
Peter Grimes (Britten), 280–81
Pharos and Pharillon (Forster), 138, 139, 191
Picasso, Pablo, 205, 287
Pilgrim Hawk, The (Wescott), 284
Pindar, 50
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 50
Pinter, Harold, 4
Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 306
Plato, 46, 55, 151
Plomer, William, 240, 256, 303, 319, 322
and biography of Forster, 316–18
correspondence of Forster and, 248, 254, 257, 311–12
ninetieth-birthday tribute to Forster by, 320
obituary of Forster by, 318
seventieth-birthday party for Forster organized by, 277
Woolfs and, 13, 224, 225
during World War II, 249–50
Plutarch, 223
Pope, Alexander, 82, 292
Pope, Jessie, 124
Porter, Katherine Anne, 243, 285
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 144
Port Said (Egypt), 106, 107
reunion of Forster and el Adl in, 180, 184
Poston family, 87
Presley, Elvis, 312
Prisoners of War (Ackerley), 202–204
Proust, Marcel, 204, 316
Provincetown, 267, 273–75
Pulitzer Prize, 261
Queen’s College, Belfast, 65
Queens’ College, Cambridge, 44
Radev, Mattei, 310
“Raison d’Être of Criticism in the Arts, The” (Forster), 269
Ray, Man, 286
Reading Unversity, 307
“Recessional” (Kipling), 252
“Recollections” (Dickinson), 228–29
Red Cross, 123–25, 129–30, 132–35, 149–50, 156, 164, 173
Reed, John, 263
Reform Club, 18, 195
Regler, Gustav, 241
Reid, Forrest, 111, 112, 116–18, 120, 136, 168, 178, 180, 254
Reith, John, 246
Renoir, Jean, 287
Richard III (Shakespeare), 246
“Road from Colonus, The” (Forster), 66, 68
Roerick, Bill, 253–54, 259–63, 268–69, 274, 276, 283, 284, 293, 294, 323
Romans, ancient, 72, 125
Rooksnest, 28–29, 31, 37, 78, 87, 257, 305
house in Howards End based on, 28, 99
Room with a View, A (Forster), 5, 44, 60, 67, 98, 116
dedication of, 93
fiftieth anniversary of publication of, 320
revisions of, 67–68, 78, 92–93, 99, 104
Roosevelt, Admiral Henry, 264
Root family, 260
Rope (Hamilton), 207
Rosetti, Dante Gabriel, 50
Ross, George, 89
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 241
Rowlatt Act (1919), 182
Rowson, Everett K., 345n
Royal Air Force (RAF), 193, 205, 213, 239, 240, 306
Rudd, Robert Barnes, 268
Rumbold, Richard, 318
Ruskin, John, 64
Russell, Bertrand, 52, 121
Sackville-West, Eddie, 205
Sackville-West, Vita, 205, 216
Sado (Plomer), 13, 224
Salome (Wilde), 103
Samuel, Viscount, 306, 307
Sanitary Commission (Alexandria), 127
Santa Monica (California), 3–4, 6–8, 248
Sassoon, Hester (née Gatty), 234–35
Sassoon, Siegfried, 12, 168–69, 178, 192, 234–35
Saturday Night at the Greyhound (Hampson), 225
Sayle, Charles, 62, 63, 70, 75
Schiller, Ferdinand, 229
Scholar Gypsy, The (Arnold), 72
Scotland Yard, 290
Sea, The (French), 273
Searight, Kenneth, 107, 108, 184
Sedition Act (1934), 242
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The (Lawrence), 14–15, 192–93
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Britten), 279
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey), 288–89
Sexual Inversion (Ellis), 71
Sexual Offenses Act (1967), 19, 307
Shakespeare, William, 46–47, 50, 94, 102, 246
Shaw, George Bernard, 49–50, 113, 200, 216
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 55, 84, 291
Shia Muslims, 89
“Shooting an Elephant” (Orwell), 4
Shore Leave (Cadmus), 264
Shropshire Lad, A (Housman), 50, 72, 91, 93
Si le grain ne meurt (Gide), 243–44
Simpson, Johnny, 225, 234, 252, 254
Sinadino, Agostino John, 144–45, 343n
Sitwell family, 285
Slater, Montagu, 280, 297
Smith College, 266
Socratic method, 53
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 120
Sophocles, 50
South Africa, 201, 212
imperial civil service in, 41
Soviet Union, 179, 241, 244
Spain, rise of fascism in, 240
Spectator, The, 225
Spender, Humphrey, 295
Spender, Stephen, 4, 14, 224–25, 250, 295
Spinning House prison (Cambridge), 48
Sprott, Walter John Herbert “Jack” or “Sebastian,” 201–202, 207–12, 217–19, 222, 270, 273, 316–19, 322
Stalin, Joseph, 244
Stein, Gertrude, 285, 286
Steinbeck, John, 291
Stephen, Leslie, 100
Stevenage (Hertfordshire), 28, 87, 305
Forster’s childhood home near, see Rooksnest
Stewart, Desmond, 252
Stonehenge, 72
Stonewall riots (New York, 1969), 6, 21, 263
“Story of a Panic, The” (Forster), 61–63, 66, 68, 73, 75
“Story of a Siren, The” (Forster), 68
Strachey, Lytton, 11, 62, 71, 92, 149, 179, 216
as Apostle, 53–55
in Bloomsbury Group, 63, 70
correspondence of Forster and, 164, 222
death of, 227
at Figsbury Rings, 75
Maurice criticized by, 116, 118–19
conscientious objection to World War I o
f, 123, 135
“Strange Fits of Passion” (Wordsworth), 93
Strauss, Richard, 103
Streatfeild, Ted, 25–26
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 259
Sturgis, Howard Overing, 94
Sunday Express, 215–16
Sunday Pictorial, 306
Sunni Muslims, 89
Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss), 33
Symonds, John Addington, 46, 60, 71, 94, 252, 279, 309
Tahzib-al-Akhlaq (journal), 89
Telephone, The (Menotti), 259
Tennant, Stephen, 234
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 50, 52
Texas, University of, 318
Ransom Center, 323
This Is the Army (Berlin), 253, 259, 261
Thomas, Elsie, 120, 158
Thomson, Virgil, 269
Thornton, Henry, 26–28, 255
Thornton, Marianne “Aunt Monie,” 25–30, 34, 50, 230, 255, 257, 303
Tim (Sturgis), 94
Times, The, 205, 227, 234, 251, 256, 309, 318
Literary Supplement, 92
Tonbridge School, 37–38, 42, 44, 49
Tooker, George, 267–68, 274, 275, 277, 294, 296
Townshend, Pete, 11
Trevelyan, George M., 52, 54, 63–65, 68, 225
Trevelyan, Robert, 68, 77, 79–80, 84, 92, 93, 106, 108
Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 308
Trilling, Lionel, 282
Trinity College, Cambridge, 25, 41, 53
Clark Lectures at, 214–15
Tukoji Rao III, maharajah of Dewas, (“Bapu Sahib”), 110, 180–87, 256
Tunbridge Wells (Kent), 44, 78, 93
Turbott Wolfe (Plomer), 224
Turing, Alan, 18
Turkey, 126–27, 129, 171
Twain, Mark, 263
Two Cheers for Democracy (Forster), 137, 248
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich, 71
Ulysses (Joyce), 312
United States, 259–75, 283–96
Britten in, 279–80
Buckingham in, 283–84, 286–96
Carpenter in, 113
circulation of Maurice manuscript among friends in, 17, 18
cold war “lavender scare” in, 18–19
economic depression in, 240
emigration of Isherwood to, 4, 245, 248–49, 260, 284
Lawrences in, 120
in World War II, 253, 260
see also New York City
Uppmann, Theodore, 298
Valassopoulos, George, 146–47
Vera (Arnim), 81
Verdi, Giuseppe, 131
Versailles, Treaty of, 55, 179, 240
Vicary, Frank, 133, 138, 207–208, 210, 211, 214, 270, 312
Victoria, Queen, 95, 247
Vidal, Gore, 276
Voge, Marietta, 270
Voge, Noel, 270
Vogue magazine, 287
Wagner, Richard, 131
Waley, Arthur, 252
Warhol, Andy, 10
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 269
Waterlow, Sydney, 48, 68, 81, 94, 116, 118
Wedd, Nathaniel, 47, 49–51, 55, 58, 62, 66, 258
Wedgwood, Snow, 79
Week-Day Poems (Meredith), 333n
Welch, Denton, 252
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 215–18, 311
Wells, H. G., 216
Welty, Eudora, 199–200
Wescott, Barbara, 287, 292
Wescott, Glenway, 20, 266, 272–73, 275, 284–93, 296, 306n
Wescott, Lloyd, 286, 287, 292
West Hackhurst, 191, 198–99, 204, 212, 214, 235, 262, 270
Buckingham at, 222
commission for design of house at, 262, 270
Daley at, 204, 205
displacement of Forster from, 256–58, 270, 303
move to, 199
negotiation of lifetime lease for Lily at, 237–38
visits to Aunt Laura at, 57, 104, 105, 191
during World War II, 248, 251
We Think the World of You (Ackerley), 319
Weybridge, 77, 95, 130, 145, 209, 212
Heard in, 205
insular world of, 83
Lily’s house in, see Harnham
Masood in, 88
Palmer as bus driver in, 198, 302
What I Believe (Cadmus), 277–78
“What I Believe” (Forster), 248, 252–53, 260, 282, 291
Wheeler, Monroe, 20, 272–73, 285–89, 292, 293, 296
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster), 5, 59, 68, 69, 78–80, 84, 92, 210
Whichelo, Dutchie, 251
Whichelo, Louisa, 105
Whichelo, Percy, 251
Whichelo, Philip, 251
Whichelo family, 26, 27
White Peacock, The (Lawrence), 121
Whitman, Walt, 93, 94, 98, 113, 114, 117, 119, 125, 145, 252, 263, 337n
Whitworth, Mrs. Geoffrey, 203
Who, the, 11
Why Marriage? (Chauncey), 345n
Wichelo, Tom, 205
Wilberforce, William, 28
Wilde, Oscar, 46, 52, 103, 311
flamboyance of, 11, 70, 291
with Gide in Morocco, 244
gross indecency trial and conviction of, 10, 11, 18, 21, 33–34, 307
Wildeblood, Peter, 306, 308
Wilder, Thornton, 261, 285
Wilkinson, Patrick, 257, 316
Wilkinson, Sydney, 257, 316
Williams, Tennessee, 259, 276
Williams, William Carlos, 285
Windham, Donald, 273, 294, 296
Winter, Carl, 308
Wolfenden, Jeremy, 308
Wolfenden, John, 19, 307–308
Wolfenden Report, 19, 307, 309
Wood, Christopher, 205
Woolf, Leonard, 80, 92, 147, 180, 188, 194, 235, 249
as Apostle, 52–54
in Ceylon, 50
Egyptian essays published by, 191
horseback riding with Forster, 106–107
Isherwood published by, 3, 13
Plomer and, 224
and Virginia’s suicide, 251
and Well of Loneliness controversy, 215–16
Woolf, Virginia, 47, 52, 69, 100, 147, 188, 194–95, 213, 228, 230, 232, 235, 249
in Bloomsbury Group, 63
correspondence of Forster and, 131, 241
essays of, 215
