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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Forster, E. M.
Forster, E. M.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Howards End: Chapters 1 - 7
Chapter One
The first chapter of Howards End consists of two letters from Helen
Schlegel (who we later learn is a girl of twenty-one) to her older sister
Meg (twenty-nine). Helen is visiting the Wilcoxes, a family whom the Schlegels
have met abroad (in Germany), at their suburban home, Howards End. Helen's
letters seem quite routine-descriptions of the house, family activities,
members of the party, etc. - until in the last one-line note she drops a
bombshell: "Dearest, dearest Meg, -I do not know what you will say: Paul and I
...
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