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

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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

 

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