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From Jacob's Room to A Passage to India: A Note.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 19990922
Author:BLODGETT, HARRIET

That Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster were close friends, that each wrote an elegiac tribute to the other is well enough known. But unremarked is that Forster centrally incorporated phrasing he had learned from Woolf into the pages of his own masterpiece, adapting her words to his own ends.

We know that Forster read Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922) from his complimentary letter to Woolf on October 24, 1922, reported in her diary on October 29. That he read it closely rather than casually is further evidenced by her diary entry for February 9, 1924: "Morgan said I had got further ...

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