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E. M. Forster in Cambridge. The cultural historian Diarmuid Hester joins Henry to explore the streets and colleges of Cambridge before escaping to the greenwood to discuss Maurice by E. M. Forster, his novel of same-sex love that remained unpublished throughout his lifetime. Diarmuid and Henry visit King’s College, where Forster lived both as an undergraduate and an honorary fellow and they visit Madingley Hall and Madingley Dell.
2021 was the 50th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of Maurice in 1971.
Maurice by E. M. Forster (Penguin Classics edition)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60370/maurice-by-ed--steven-d-levitt-em-forster/9780141441139
Maurice by E. M. Forster, read by Ben Whishaw (Audible audiobook)
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Maurice-Audiobook/B08CVRKWYH
https://apple.co/3LNOqEF
Diarmuid Hester
https://www.diarmuidhester.com/
Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445054/nothing-ever-just-disappears-by-hester-diarmuid/9780241528457
https://apple.co/3RgFU20
King’s College Archive
https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/e-m-forster-and-king-s
Madingley Hall
https://www.madingleyhall.co.uk/
Adrian Barlow’s article about Madingley Dell
http://adrianbarlowsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-threat-to-madingley-dell.html
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