Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville was a British music critic, novelist and, in his last years, a member of the House of Lords. Musically gifted as a boy, he was attracted as a young m
Edward Sackville-West (left), with the critic Raymond Mortimer at Garsington Manor, June 1923
Long Crichel House, Dorset, built 1786
E. M. Forster
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Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India. He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeche
Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville
…he established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music." Guests included E.M. Forster, Benjamin Britten, Nancy Mitford, Graham Greene, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Ben Nicholson. It is regarded as "one of the last great post-war salons…
Portrait of Forster by Dora Carrington, c. 1924–1925
Plaque and sundial at Rooks Nest in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, the childhood home remembered in Forster's novel Howards End.
A section of the main building, Tonbridge School
Forster circa 1917