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Room with a View, A

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER

Room with a View, A, a novel by E. M. Forster , published 1908.

It opens in an English pensione in Florence with a confrontation between Lucy Honey-church's chaperone Miss Bartlett and the upstart Mr Emerson and his son George; the two men offer to exchange rooms, in order to give the ladies a room with a view, a favour which they reluctantly accept. The novel describes the inmates of the Pensione Bertolini, among them the clergyman Mr Beebe and the ‘original’ lady novelist Miss Lavish and their reactions to Italy and to one another. Lucy is disturbed first by witnessing ...

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