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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Howard's End
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(1910) Novel by E.M. *Forster about the split in Edwardian middle-class life between the cultured (represented by two sisters, Margaret and Helen Schlegel) and the practical (the Wilcox family, whose house is Howard's End). Friendships and love affairs between the two groups are the basis of the plot, and personal relationships are revealed as all-important (a *Bloomsbury theme).
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The novel's most famous sentence, 'Only connect', relates to the broader issue of the two contrasted types of people. It is the message of Margaret to her husband, Henry Wilcox, just after she has married him: 'Only connect!... Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest.'
The book was made into a very successful film in 1992, directed by James Ivory, with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins as Margaret and Henry.
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