Howard's End Summary
E. M. Forster

Howards End by E. M. Forster Born in London in 1879, Edward Morgan Forster was the only son of the architect Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster and Alice Clara Whichelo. The future novelist was only o... Read more

Biography EssayDuring the Edwardian years and into the 1920s, E. M. Forster consolidated his reputation as a novelist of distinction and as a persuasive man of letters. He attained the greatest recogn... Read more

At first glimpse, the work of the British novelist and essayist, E. M. Forster, would hardly be thought to be the stuff of Hollywood. His finely detailed novels explore the Edwardian world of society ... Read more

During the Edwardian years and into the 1920s, E. M. Forster consolidated his reputation as a novelist of distinction and as a persuasive man of letters. He attained the greatest recognition and autho... Read more

Edward Morgan Forster, though best known as a novelist, also distinguished himself in other genres, including the short story. His first collection of stories as well as four of his six novels appeare... Read more

In a 1959 lecture, "Three Countries," E. M. Forster called himself "a confirmed globetrotter," but the impact of travel on his life and work cannot adequately be suggested by that light phrase. What F... Read more

In the following essay, Hall argues that Forster presents a conservative view of family dynamics in Howards End. The breakup and continuance of the family are such consistent themes in E. M. Forste... Read more

In the following essay, Schneidau explores the ways in which Howards End evidences “autochthony,” or “an ideology of sacred space,” as symbolized by the house Howards End. ... Read more

In the following essay, Olson argues that Forster's families in Howards End prefigure modern family structure. That contemporaneous reviewers of E. M. Forster's Howards End [hereafter... Read more

In the following essay, Born considers Howards End “the most comprehensive picture of liberal guilt in this century.” “I know that personal relations are the real life, for eve... Read more

In the following essay, Womack examines Forster's social criticism regarding family issues in Howards End. Although David Lodge's Nice Work (1988) provides a surprising narrative of r... Read more

In the following essay, Sillars examines Forster's allusions in Howards End to other texts of the Edwardian period in England to gain an understanding of the novel's “duality.... Read more

In the following essay, Turner examines the meaning of money, objects, and accumulation in Howards End. [T]here seems something else in life besides time, something which may conveniently be called... Read more

In the following essay, Levenson argues that Howards End “gives the experience of modernity a turn toward politics and toward mysticism.” Liberalism and symbolism, both unwieldy terms... Read more

In the following essay, Pinkerton finds that Forster's treatment of the character Leonard Bast in Howards End prefigures his ending of A Passage to India. E. M. Forster, in “The Chall... Read more

In the following essay, Feltes examines the ways in which Forster's narrative strategy in Howards End reflects the history of the publishing industry at the time. In her book on Mudie'... Read more

Do the characters of "Howards End" understand the importance of `knowing oneself'" It was Rose Macauley who wrote in The Writings of E. M. Forster- Howards End (1938) that one meaning of the novel mi... Read more