"For the Wilcoxes are England; they contain more of the essence of England even than Sunday afternoons, or Lords, or Sir William Bull."
— E. M. Forster

January 1, 1970

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Punch, review of Howards End (1910), quoted in P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life, Volume One: The Growth of the Novelist 1879–1914 (1977; 1979 ed.), p. 188