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The real life story behind E.M. Forster's book, 19 January 2006
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p-n-taylor from United Kingdom
Many viewers and critics have criticised the happy ending of this film
as being 'unrealistic' or even 'impossible'. After all an upper class
and working class man could never live as a couple in Edwardian
England? In fact E.M. Forster's inspiration for writing the book
Maurice was a real gay couple, one upper class and the other working
class, who lived together openly in England for about 35 years until
1928. They are buried in the same grave.
Edward Carpenter was a close friend of E.M.Forster, who named
Carpenter's working class gay partner, George Merrill, as the
inspiration for his novel Maurice. He had visited Carpenter and Merrill
at Millthorpe in Derbyshire on several occasions: once, in 1913,
Merrill "touched my backside - gently and just above the buttocks. I
believe he touched most people's. The sensation was unusual and I still
remember it, as I remember the position of a long vanished tooth. He
made a profound impression on me and touched a creative spring" That
was the origin for the writing of Maurice.
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