A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (58 page)

77
“we have got a house”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, Aug. 25, 1904, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:61n.

77
“small and somewhat suburban”:
EMF to Dent, Oct. 1, 1904, KCC.

77
“an inscription to the effect”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, Aug. 25, 1904, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:61n.

77
“a field full of dropsical chickens”:
Ibid.

78
Like Adam in the garden:
EMF to Dent, Oct. 1, 1904, KCC.

78
“quite pretty in some ways”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, Aug. 25, 1904, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:61n.

78
a “sorry bit of twaddle”:
Forster, “Three Countries,” in
The Hill of Devi
, 291.

79
“I knew not nor”:
Forster, “My Books and I,” ms., KCC.

79
“almost with physical force”:
Forster, “Three Countries,” in
The Hill of Devi
, 290.

79
“fundamental objection to the story”:
Snow Wedgwood to Laura Forster, April 27, 1906, in “Editor’s Introduction” to Forster,
Where Angels Fear to Tread
, xiii.

79
“had not realised the solidity”:
Gardner, ed.,
Commonplace Book
, 15–16.

79
“ability to expand or contract”:
Ibid., 12–13.

79
He defended the novel:
Robert Trevelyan to EMF, no date, quoted in
Where Angels Fear to Tread
, 150–51.

80
“The object of the book”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, Oct. 28, 1905, quoted ibid., 149.

80
“My life is now straightening into”:
EMF, Diary, Dec. 31, 1904, KCC; Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, I:121.

80
“twenty-five is the boundary”:
EMF, Diary, Dec. 31, 1904, KCC.

80
“Growing old is an emotion”:
Forster, “De Senectute,” 15–16.

81
To “keep the brutes”:
EMF, Diary, Dec. 31, 1904, KCC; Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, I:122.

81
His sojourn in Nassenheide:
EMF to ACF, April 4, 1905, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:66–67.

82
“indifferent false teeth & a society drawl”:
Ibid., 67.

82
“How d’ye do, Mr. Forster!”:
Forster, “Nassenheide” in Jeffrey M. Heath, ed.,
The Creator as Critic
, 207. The essay was written in 1954.

82
“the country is unthinkably large”:
EMF, Diary, April 8, 1905, KCC.

82
“very clever, but most unattractive”:
EMF to ACF, July 8, 1905, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:81.

82
“Fools rush in”:
Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism,” III:177.

82
“settled into contentment”:
EMF to Arthur Cole, July 7, 1905, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:78. Cole, a musicologist, had been Malcolm Darling’s best friend at King’s.

83
“Artists now realise that”:
Forster, “Pessimism in the Novel,” in Thomson, ed.,
Albergo Empedocle
, 135; EMF, Diary, Feb. 27, 1906, KCC.

83
“The writer who depicts”:
Forster, “Pessimism in the Novel,” in Thomson, ed.,
Albergo Empedocle
, 144–45.

83
“astonishing glass shade”:
Forster,
Howards End
(Abinger), 171; EMF, Notebook Journal, Dec. 13, 1907, KCC.

83
“To know and help”:
EMF, Notebook Journal, June [n.d.], 1905, KCC.

84
“I know I am not”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, Oct. 28, 1905, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:83.

84
“I never was attached”:
Shelley,
Epipsychidion
(1821), ll. 149–59.

85
“owes something to my”:
Forster, “Author’s Introduction” to
The Longest Journey
(1960), xxvii.

85
“just where he began”:
Forster,
The Longest Journey
, 35.

85
“foresee[s] the most appalling”:
Ibid., 80.

85
“You are not a person who”:
Ibid., 81.

85
“marriage is most certainly”:
Forster, “Pessimism in the Novel,” in Thomson, ed.,
Albergo Empedocle
, 136.

86
“Doubt whether the novel’s”:
EMF, Notebook Journal, March 26, 1906, KCC.

86
From his very first drafts:
Forster,
The Longest Journey
, 141.

86
The reviewers of
The Longest Journey
: Tribune
, April 22, 1907, in Gardner,
Critical Heritage
, 66;
Daily News
, May 3, 1907, in Gardner,
Critical Heritage
, 73;
Standard
, May 14, 1907, in Gardner,
Critical Heritage
, 83.

86
“only students of the Master’s Juvenilia”:
EMF to Dent, no date, late April 1907, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:87.

86
“least popular of my . . . novels”:
Forster, “Author’s Introduction” to
The Longest Journey
(1960), lxvii.

87
“cut off from HOM”:
EMF, Notebook Journal, June 22, 1906, KCC.

87
“the bodies of men”:
Ibid.

87
“you can hardly see”:
EMF to ACF, Aug. 31, 1906, KCC.

87
“There is a whole new street”:
EMF to ACF, Aug. 29, 1906, KCC.

87
“wearing a sweeping blue gown”:
Ashby,
Forster Country
, 105.

87
“no escape from Table d’hôte”:
EMF to Dent, Oct. 3, 1906, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:85.

88
“pride and arrogance”:
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, quoted in Metcalf and Metcalf,
A Concise History of Modern India
, 100.

89
“highest position a ‘Native’ ”:
Lelyveld, “Macaulay’s Curse,” 1.

89
“wrapped up the shivering”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:329.

89
“All that splendor”:
Lelyveld, “Macaulay’s Curse,” 15.

90
whom he regarded as “poor fellows”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, I:144.

90
“sonorous and beautiful voice”:
Ibid., 143.

90
“the vast self-confidence”:
Beauman,
Morgan
, 183–84.

90
“Oh dear, I do”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, I:143.

90
“Masood gives up duties”:
EMF, Notebook Journal, Dec. 24, 1906, KCC.

90
Their friendship seemed to:
See Kidwai, ed.,
Forster-Masood Letters
.

90
“Centuries may pass, years”:
Masood to EMF, Nov. 22, 1908, in Kidwai, ed.,
Forster-Masood Letters
[no page]. Also KCC.

90
“measur[ing] out [his] emotions”:
Forster, “Notes on the English Character,”
Abinger Harvest
, 6.

91
“There never was anyone”:
Forster, “Syed Ross Masood,” in
Two Cheers
, 292.

91
“We like the like”:
EMF, Notebook Journal, Aug. 15, 1907, KCC.

91
But his life remained:
EMF, Notebook Journal, Dec. 31, 1907, KCC.

91
“pigging it”:
EMF to Dent, n.d., late April 1907, KCC.

91
“The home-sickness and bed-sickness”:
EMF, “AE Housman,” ms., KCC. This essay was composed around 1950.

91
“unspoilt and alive”:
EMF, Notebook Journal, April 11, 1907, KCC.

91
“I realized the poet”:
EMF, “AE Housman,” ms., KCC.

92
“Mr. Forster fastens himself”: Times Literary Supplement
, April 26, 1907, in Gardner,
Critical Heritage
, 67.

92
“the sudden death rate”: Morning Post
, May 6, 1907, in Gardner,
Critical Heritage
, 79–80.

92
“It was the Taupe”:
LS to Leonard Woolf, Jan. 26, 1906, in Levy, ed.,
The Letters of Lytton Strachey
, 95.

92
“The morals, the sentimentality”:
LS to Leonard Woolf, May 2, 1907, ibid., 126.

92
“things in [your novel]”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, I:150.

92
“I have been looking”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, June 11, 1907, quoted in editor’s introduction to
A Room with a View
, xiii.

92
Five years had passed:
Stallybrass, ed.,
The Lucy Novels
, 3.

93
“Oh mercy to myself”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, Sept. 12, 1907, quoted in editor’s introduction to
A Room with a View
, xii.

93
“Sir, I hesitate to address you”:
EMF to Robert Trevelyan, postcard June 10, 1908, quoted ibid., xii.

93
“Never heard of it”:
Forster,
A Room with a View
, 125.

93
“I will escape from the sham”:
Forster, “Howard Overing Sturgis,” in
Abinger Harvest and England’s Pleasant Land
, 118.

94
These Edwardian novels:
EMF, Diary, Dec. 31, 1907, KCC.

94
In mid-January 1908:
EMF, Diary, Jan. 16, 1908, KCC.

94
“a really first class person”:
EMF to Dent, Feb. 10, 1908, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:92.

94
“I felt all that the ordinary”:
Ibid.

94
“effectively bald”:
EMF to ACF, Jan. 17, 1908, KCC.

95
James would “know better”:
Ibid.

95
“Your name’s Moore”:
Forster, “Henry James and the Young Men” in
The Listener
, July 16, 1959.

95
“More of a man”:
EMF, Diary, Jan. 16, 1908, KCC.

95
The American transplant seemed:
Forster,
Aspects of the Novel
, 110.

95
“pattern [is] woven”:
Gardner, ed.,
Commonplace Book
, 14.

95
“gutted of the common stuff”:
Forster,
Aspects of the Novel
, 110, 111.

95
“merely declining to think”:
Gardner, ed.,
Commonplace Book
, 18.