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Maurice the novel5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The militaristic demands of two world wars – the extensive mapping of England in the name of security – had, for Forster, robbed the island of its wild places. While this genesis story gets a lot of press in Forster circles, for me what is more striking is Forster's description of Maurice as belonging "to an England where it was still possible to get lost". Shortly thereafter, Forster began his novel Maurice, and in a "Terminal Note" written almost 50 years later he identified Merrill's touch as its inspiration. A hundred years ago, the writer Edward Carpenter's young lover George Merrill placed a hand on the indeterminate region between EM Forster's buttocks and back. ![]() T his year marks the centenary of one of the best known gropes in English letters. ![]()
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