Howards End
Wilcox family property
Howards End is a 1910 novel by E.M.
Forster exploring class divisions in Edwardian England through three families and a country house.
The title lacks an apostrophe by design.
The phrase only connect, from its epigraph, has become a widely quoted expression about bridging social and emotional divides.
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
- English countrysideRural areas of Britain
- EnglandLargest British country
- period dramaStory set in past
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
Forster · inheritance · sisters · property · class · connection · literary fiction · epigraph · Ivory · Helena Bonham Carter · Anthony Hopkins · countryside · London · drawing room · Helen · Margaret · culture · gentility
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- historical dramasBridgerton, Downton Abbey, Poldark, The Crown, Victoria
- 1900s LiteratureThe Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian Gray
- 1910s LiteratureDubliners, Ethan Frome, Sons and Lovers, The Secret Garden, Pygmalion
- Modernist ClassicsThe Great Gatsby, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waste Land
- E.M. ForsterMaurice, Bloomsbury Group
literary thematic content
Howards EndThe Waste Land
Fragmented 1922 modernist poem
1984 · The Road · Brave New World · Heart of Darkness · Lord of the Flies
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