Poor Dear, How She Figures!
Alan Hollinghurst: Forster and His Mother, 3 January 2013
The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster Volumes I-III
edited by Philip Gardner.
Pickering and Chatto, 813 pp., £275, February 2011,978 1 84893 114 5 Show More
edited by Philip Gardner.
Pickering and Chatto, 813 pp., £275, February 2011,
“... In 1929 E.M. Forster accompanied his close friend Florence Barger and her husband to a conference in South Africa, and kept a detailed journal of the two-month round trip. After the conference they left Pretoria to join a ship at the port of Beira in Mozambique: Levant at last – those trudging squares and triangles between houses that I remember from Port Said in 1912, a plank missing from the footbridge, natives grading into Portuguese without shame, a grilling sea-wall, its pavement burst up by the waves, houses built on white piles, with chickens ducks cookery and washing sharing the basement, a desolate and grilling public garden, and the sea full of floating brown pennies of oil ... ”
