A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (55 page)

3
“impossible not to be drawn to him”:
Lehmann,
In My Own Time
, 120.

4
“might have belonged to”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 97.

4
“pale narrowed quizzing eyes”:
Ibid.

4
“the future of the English novel”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf
, V:185, Nov. 1, 1938. Woolf records this comment by Somerset Maugham.

4
Auden stayed in New York:
Isherwood, diary entry for Oct. 29, 1973. Quoted in “Introduction” to
Christopher Isherwood, Lost Years: A Memoir
, ed. Katherine Bucknell, xi.

5
E. M. Forster, the “master”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 105.

5
“Instead of trying to screw”:
Isherwood,
Lions and Shadows
, 173–74.

5
“possible to be friends”:
Forster,
A Passage to India
, 5.

5
“so shy it makes”:
Spender to CI,
Letters to Christopher
, 57.

6
“saner than anyone else”:
Isherwood,
Down There on a Visit
, 175.

6
“weariness of the only subject”:
EMF, Locked Diary, June 16, 1911, KCC.

6
With the mysterious package:
Lehmann,
Christopher Isherwood
, 121.

7
“took [a] young boy and”:
Bachardy in
Chris and Don
, a film by Tina Mascara and Guido Santi, 2007.

7
“unnerving habit of appearing”:
Wright,
John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure
, 236.

7
“very affectionate and gentle”:
Lehmann,
Christopher Isherwood
, 121.

7
“a happy ending was imperative”:
Forster, “Notes on
Maurice
,” in
Maurice
, 216.

8
“handsome, healthy, bodily attractive”:
Ibid., 209.

8
Alec dispels the suburban nonsense:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 127.

8
“He knew what the call was”:
Forster,
Maurice
, 207.

8
“Now we shan’t be parted”:
Ibid.

8
Christopher was gleeful:
Lehmann,
Christopher Isherwood
, 121.

9
Only weeks before Morgan died:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 104–6.

9
The March visit began:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:324; interview with Mark Lancaster, Jamestown, R.I., Feb. 24, 2007.

9
“portraits of ladies in bonnets”:
Culme-Seymour, “Memories of E. M. Forster,” in J. H. Stape, ed.,
E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections
, 87.

9
“stooped and feeble”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 106.

9
wily as a “raccoon”:
Interview with Don Bachardy, Santa Monica, Calif., Nov. 5, 2007.

9
“as ‘openly gay’ as people were”:
Lancaster, “Artist in Residence,” 16.

10
“In the atmosphere of the Warhol Factory”:
Mark Lancaster, correspondence with author, March 10, 2007.

10
“What do
I
have to do?”:
Interview with Mark Lancaster, Feb. 24, 2007.

11
“was such a bore”:
Lancaster, “Artist in Residence,” 16.

11
“the man who comes”:
Plomer in Furbank, “The Personality of E. M. Forster,” 61.

12
“always makes me into a chatterbox”:
Sassoon, Diary, July 10, 1923, in Hart-Davis, ed.,
Siegfried Sassoon Diaries
, 61.

12
“false and tricky”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 106.

12
“startlingly shrewd look of”:
Rama Rau, “Remembering E. M. Forster,” in J. H. Stape, ed.,
E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections
, 133.

12
“a baby who remembers”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 106.

12
“tip a sentence”:
Panter-Downes, “Kingsman,” 62.

12
“It’s impossible to face facts”:
Forster to Josie Darling, 1914, in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:2.

12
“I will try to decide”:
Craft, “Tea in Cambridge,” in J. H. Stape, ed.,
E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections
, 25.

13
“shuffled in, asked me”:
Lancaster, “Artist in Residence,” 16; interview with Mark Lancaster, Feb. 24, 2007.

13
When Christopher first met:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 105.

13
“the key to the whole art”:
Ibid.

13
“And so, one evening”:
Isherwood,
The Memorial
, 210.

14
“I shall spend the entire morning”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 104.

14
“silly solemn old professor”:
Ibid., 17.

15
“clasping this magic volume”:
Ibid., 106.

15
His “lover and beloved,” Bob Buckingham
: Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters of E. M. Forster
, II:112; EMF to Sprott, Oct. 4, 1932, KCC.

15
Some homosexuals he knew:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 125.

15
The truth was that to the younger man’s ear:
Ibid., 126.

15
“I have shared with Alec”:
Forster,
Maurice
, 212.

16
“imprisoned within the jungle”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 126.

16
Apprehensively, he asked Christopher:
Ibid.

16
“Eyes brimming with tears”:
Ibid., 127.

16
“bright-eyed little rat”:
Parker,
Christopher Isherwood
, 277.

16
“committed to wandering the world”:
Ibid., 282.

16
“I think what might happen”:
EMF to CI, April 27, 1933, Huntington; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:118–19.

17
“I am ashamed at shirking”:
EMF to CI, June 25, 1948, Huntington.

17
“But Gide hasn’t got a mother!”:
Parker,
Ackerley
, 338.

17
Then, after the war:
EMF to CI, Aug. 28, 1938, Huntington; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:159.

17
“briefly and blazingly written”:
EMF to CI, Aug. 28, 1938, Huntington; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:159.

17
But Morgan’s earlier skepticism:
For thorough discussions of the homosexual prosecutions in the decades after World War II, see Higgins,
Heterosexual Dictatorship
, and Johnson,
The Lavender Scare
.

18
Morgan jocularly called the packet:
EMF to Wheeler, Oct. 15, 1952, Beinecke.

18
In Christopher’s study:
Lehmann,
Christopher Isherwood
, 121.

18
But the men shared a reverence:
Philip Gardner’s editor’s introduction to the Abinger edition of
Maurice
(1999) describes the peregrinations of the various
Maurice
manuscripts.

18
“How
annoyed
I am”:
EMF, Locked Diary, KCC. There is no specific date for this addendum, but Forster’s notation that he was almost eighty-five gives it a rough date in the mid-1960s.

19
“knowledge would bring understanding”:
Forster,
Maurice
, 220.

19
“can only be legalised”:
Ibid.

20
“writer so socially acceptable”:
GW to CI, Sept. 20, 1971, Huntington.

20
“there can be real love”:
Isherwood,
Christopher and His Kind
, 126.

20
“Of course all those books”:
Lehmann,
Christopher Isherwood
, 121.

25
“I own, but not quite”:
Marianne Thornton to ACF, quoted in Forster,
Marianne Thornton
, 285.

25
While Lily rested at the hotel:
Ibid., 287.

26
By the time they returned to London:
Ibid., 287.

26
“months of languor and sickness”:
Ibid., 289, 287.

26
“she was accustomed to”:
Ibid., 287.