Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony.Ī meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Deftly written yet multi-layered, Forster’s great novel retains its relevance into the twenty-first century.Ī chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters.Īs clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin.
One of the great literary dissections of the British class system, Howard’s End pits the bourgeois Wilcoxes against the cultured Schlegels - no to mention the impecunious clerk Leonard Bast - in a bitter battle for the eponymous stately home.
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