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Despite occasional puzzlements, critics judged Howards End to be not only Forster’s best but ‘the most significant novel of the year’. It was ‘head and shoulders above the great mass of fiction now claiming a hearing’. It was ‘a novel of high talent — the highest’, ‘a book in which his highly original talent has found full and ripe expression’. The Standard’s reviewer declared that Mr Forster had arrived, ‘and, if he never writes another line, his niche should be secure’.1
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Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, Private Secretary to King George, to Crewe, 23 July 1912. CP, Box 1/8 (1).
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica (Cambridge: The University Press, 1903 ), pp. 203, 204.
Crewe to Hardinge, 25 November 1911. HP, Vol. 73. On Bengali politics as background to Partition, see J. H. Broomfield, Elite Conflict in a Plural Society: Twentieth-Century Bengal ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968 ).
See EMF, ’The Hill of Devi’ and other Indian writings ed. Elizabeth Heine. Abinger Edition (London: Edward Arnold, 1983), pp. xxii-xxiv.
See John W. Cell, Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872–1969 ( Cambridge: The University Press, 1992 ), p. 129.
Santha Rama Rau, A Passage to India (stage script, author’s collection). Produced at the Oxford Playhouse and Comedy Theatre, London, 1960; Ambassador Theatre, New York, 1962.
William G. Archer, The Loves of Krishna. Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West, No. 18 (New York: Macmillan [1957]), p. 65.
G. K. Das, E. M. Forster’s India ( London: Macmillan, 1977 ), pp. 60–1.
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Lago, M. (1995). The Indian Novel. In: E. M. Forster. Macmillan Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23795-1_3
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