He attended Tonbridge School, a typical English 'Public School,' which he disliked intensely, and later, King's College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and history and was quite happy. As a boy, he lived in Hertfordshire, in the house which was later to become the central symbol of Howards End.

NOTE: Beginning directly below is the original guide.]Įdward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, the son of an architect, who died shortly after the child's birth. Forster's acute consciousness of gay oppression, as epitomized in the persecution of Wilde, haunted his imagination throughout his life, fueling his anger at social and political injustices of all kinds. Their relationship survived even Bob's marriage in 1932 and continued until Forster's death at Coventry in the Buckinghams' home in 1970. Mohammed el Adl was to end sadly, with Mohammed's premature death in 1922, Forster cemented a long-lasting relationship with a good-looking and intelligent police constable named Bob Buckingham in 1930. Forster, in fact, was not to experience a fully satisfying sexual relationship of any duration until he was nearly forty, when he fell in love with an Egyptian tram conductor in Alexandria in 1919.

I have supplemented the original text with a few notes discussing Forster as a gay man and author, beginning with this biographical sketch: PLEASE NOTE: Although the following analysis as originally written (in the 1960s, before Forster's death) does not deal with the author being gay, or with the many same-sex themes which run throughout his work, it contains many insights into Howards End and some into A Passage to India, which we discussed in February 2001 which I thought you might find of interest.

Character Analyses and Critical Commentary.

Chapter-by-Chapter Summary and Analysis.

(Click on any heading below to jump to that section) NOTE: This material is for your personal use please do not distribute it in any form. Gilbert (Department of English, Queens College) Guide to Howards End A Guide to Howards Endīy Prof.

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