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Some Interviews with E. M. Forster, 1957-58, 1965 - British novelist
Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1997 by Wilfred Stone
7 By Constance Talbot. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1927).
8 The Bloomsbury Group (London: Secker, 1954).
9 "My Early Beliefs," Two Memoirs (London: Hart-Davis, 1949) 81.
10 Dr. and Mrs. Reginald Hale-White. Dr. Hale-White was the author's grandson.
11 Noel Annan was then Provost of King's College and most helpful to me in my inquiries about Forster. We had many talks about Forster and Bloomsbury. In our first meeting, sometime in October 1957, he cleared the air by saying, "You know Forster's queer, don't you?" I did, but it was helpful to have it confirmed - even though it was not a matter I could, at that date, openly discuss in my book. (I did, however, obliquely hint at it in several places.) Annan had a poor opinion of the unpublished novel and thought I should consider myself lucky in not having to deal with it.
12 Read notebooks. It's interesting that EMF used that term, since he was keeping a commonplace book (since published) at the time.
13 Feb. 1949: 3, 31.
14 Nov. 1957: 15-18.
15 The friend to whom A Room with a View is dedicated.
16 See Collected Impressions (New York: Knopf, 1950) 123, and The Cave and the Mountain 348, 420.
17 The other members were, besides Dickinson, Francis W. Hirst, C. E G. Masterman, G. M. Trevelyan, and Nathaniel Wedd.
18 The question arose out of an impression rather than any careful checking. It turns out that of 22 Athenaeum articles in 1919, only 7 dealt with plays. Almost half consisted of pieces that found a place in Pharos and Pharillon and Abinger Harvest.
19 Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England (London: Longman, 1864). B. J. Kirkpatrick reports that the concluding 10 paragraphs are extant. See his Bibliography 107.
20 This was included in the scrapbook that EMF had shown me and let me borrow. Basileona was an undergraduate magazine.
21 The conflict was between Sir William Willcocks and another engineer in the Egyptian administration, Sir Murdoch MacDonald. Murdoch won his libel suit, so the reprinting of the article constituted a repeating of the libel. Forster and Arnold's had in the end to pay [pounds]500 as well as withdraw the piece. See P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life, 2 vols. (London: Secker, 1978) 2: 211. As I remember, a copy of the original article was included in the scrapbook that EMF loaned me.
22 EMF said more than this, but this was the gist. This image grew in my imagination and became the central image of The Cave and the Mountain.
23 Swinburne had written a devastating parody of Tennyson's "The Higher Pantheism," and this may be an attempt to do the same in a political vein.
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