A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster

by Wendy Moffat

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  Acknowledgments

  Dickinson College has been my intellectual home for almost twenty-five years. It has also been the fount of most material support for this ten-year project. I would like to thank my colleagues on the Research and Development Committee and Provost Neil Weissman for money, time, and the chance to collaborate with students using Dana and Mellon funds. Dickinson students Jason Murray, Sara Hoover, and George Fitting provided valuable help and insight. Laura Harbold, now a colleague, checked quotations and obtained permissions with her usual intelligence and aplomb.

  Sydelle Kramer, agent extraordinaire, saw in this project something greater than I imagined and helped me to show it to others. Jonathan Galassi has edited with the grace and patience of a Zen master. More than anyone, he has taught me how to write this book. Immeasurable care has been taken by Jesse Coleman, Jeff Seroy, and many others at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Bill Swainson loves literature and lent me his impeccable ear.

  Jeff Wood, the last independent bookseller in Cumberland County, has steered me in the right direction more times than I can count.

  At Dickinson there are many people who have helped me to become a better teacher and writer. College librarians, especially Chris Bombaro and Tina Maresco, have performed many miracles. Thanks also to Rafael Alvarado, Greg Berrier, Dan Buchan, Ryan Burke, Andrew Connell, Amanda deLorenzo, Brenda Landis, Pat Pehlman, Andy Petrus, Tom Smith, Chuck Steel, Brenda Steely, and Jean Weaver for years of technical support.

  I would like to thank my friends for rich and challenging conversations and the freedom to explore these problems through teaching. Kelly Winters-Fazio has supported me at every step. Susan Rose, Bob Winston, Carol Ann Johnston, Bob Ness, and David Ball have encouraged and goaded me. Sharon O’Brien knew that I could write this book long before I believed I could. Dickinson’s program at the University of East Anglia offered a home away from home in 1997 and 1998. Thanks to Jackie Fear-Segal and Allan Segal, Simon Middleton and Caroline Wade, Sophy Rickett and Robert Innes Hopkins, Margaret Homberger, Judy Homberger, and Eric Homberger (who charitably and thoughtfully read an early draft of the manuscript).

  A monthlong fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale in September 2007 afforded me access to the papers of many of Forster’s American friends, the company of congenial scholars, and a generous stipend. During that time Liliane Greene graciously shared her home and heart.

  I have followed in the steps of extraordinary bi
ographers of Forster. Francis King spoke with me very early in the project. Nicola Beauman warmly reached out to me and offered useful advice. Nick Furbank shared his insight, unpublished correspondence, photographs, and audiotapes. I am grateful for their generosity.

  I relied on the wise counsel of scholars and experts in a range of fields: Paul Armstrong, Karen Arrandale, Todd Avery, Michael Bernstein, Robert Caserio, George Chauncey, David Commins, Nicholas de Jongh, Ed DeLuca, Bruce Dunne, Max Egremont, Philip Eliasoph, Jay Grossman, Judith Scherer Herz, Lisa Hodermarsky, Hubert Kennedy, the late Mary Lago, Linda Leavell, David Lelyveld, Glen Leonard, Christofilis Maggidis, Jesse Matz, Ira Nadel, Peter Parker, Ted Pulcini, Jerry Rosco, S. P. Rosenbaum, Everett K. Rowson, Richard Shone, Justin Spring, Bill Thompson, Karen Van Dyck, Robyn Warhol, Jonathan Weinberg, and Glenn Willums. Betty Sams lent me a rare Baedeker. Sue Schweik lent me the talisman of Morgan’s calling card, found by her father in the pages of a book. Now it can go home again.