E.M. Forster's forgotten biography-memoir

Lost homes and forbidden passions

E.M. Forster in his rooms at King’s College Cambridge, 1949 [EMF/27/613]

Marianne Thornton was the great-aunt of the English author E.M. Forster. The legacy she left him in 1887 meant that he could study at King’s College Cambridge as a young man, and later travel to Italy where he was inspired to write A Room With a View (1908). In the 1950s he returned…