A note found on the manuscript read: "Publishable, but worth it?". Forster did not seek to publish it during his lifetime, believing it to have been unpublishable during that period due to public and legal attitudes to same-sex love. Īlthough Forster showed the novel to a select few of his trusted friends (among them Lytton Strachey, Edward Carpenter, Christopher Isherwood, and Xiao Qian), it was published only posthumously, in 1971. The cross-class relationship between Carpenter and his working-class partner, George Merrill, presented a real-life model for that of Maurice and Alec Scudder. Forster was an admirer of the poet, philosopher, socialist and early gay activist Edward Carpenter, and following a visit to Carpenter's home at Millthorpe, Derbyshire in 1913, was inspired to write Maurice. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond.
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