The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 184, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1979 Page: 13 of 28
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Thursday, MaylO, 1979
Journey,” “A Room with a
View,” and ‘‘Howards
End.” As early as 1910, the_
“T /mHftn HoiltK Tnlflrtponk” I
I- Gide and Malraux invited “London Daily* Telegraph”
•Jlie’ author of “Passage to called him “one of the great
‘•India" to dinner and- then novelists.”
• Jrushed aside their plates In 1.91.3 he wrote
, ;*nd. left Jhe table. I.ytton “Maurice" (not published
.Strachey compared him to a until a year after Forster’s
•mole. Leonard Woolf called death in 1971), his only novel
^hirti ' a perfect old woman”- about homosexual love,
•and Virginif^Woolf Wrote in (Marriage - the relation-
‘ her diary,>“ffe is as timid as ship* between men and
•a mouse. ..He spends hi? women — was at the core of
riime rowing old ladies upon ali bis other Work. )' •
. the-river, and is unable* to -Forster wrote “Maurice"
•get gn with his novel.” v when his"knowledge of sex
I E.M. Forster (1879-1970) . was purely theoretical. But
-seems an utterly unlikely he also wrote many witty
’person to have written some and accurate looks at mar-
-of the most .brilliant British riage when his knowledge
novels of the 20th century — was equally theoretical.
until one reads P.N. Forster, Fur bank explains,
Furbank's 'E.M. Forster; A lived an uneventful,
'Life;” undoubtedly one of sheltered life, but mslrrner I
•the most eloquent literary life was bursting with activK. I
biographie&pfthis decade or ty, with vision. He couldn't |
any other. transfer his perceptions and
• In 1952 Furbank began his desires to other people,
recording his friend’s but he could transfer them to
thoughts,quirks.and,activi- paper.
ties. Five years before his Self-effacing and stooped,
death. Forster invited "his still there was something of.
Boswell" to. Write this biog- the knight in Forster. He
activity, putting his money
hundreds of intimate and his reputation where his
conversations, many focus-, mouth was. He came out in
ing on Forster's hpmosex- support .of Radelyffe Hall's
• uality “I should wanfevery- notorious lesbian novel “The
thing told,” Forster said, .Well of Loneliness” —
“everything.” banned by the British in 1928
And it is, Furbank — even though'he felt the
suppresses not even the book was pretentious and
;~amosL-embarrassing sexual badly written. He continued
detail. Even ByTlefonan • supporthw-Hall, even after
, . standards, Forster’s knowl- she refused his help unless ,
....... edge of sex was frightfully he proclaimed her book a
•■ skimpy. Not until he was 31 ..masterpiece. .......
; ' - :• by which time he had hrhis later years, Forster*
already published three nov- was showered with honors,
els — did he completely He declined an offer of
T * “ understand how copulation knighthood in 1950 but in 1953 -
37,, did he6have his first full of Honor; He returned hrom
sexual experience. the investiture ceremony in
Fatherless since infancy, high spirits. He declared to
'Forster was fussed over and his Cambridge friends that
‘ petted by a devoted, domi- had the queen been a boy he
* neering mother and several would have fallen in love
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 184, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1979, newspaper, May 10, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074900/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.