He travelled to Florence with his mother at the end of October 1901, staying at the Pension Simi, then 2 lungarno alle Grazie. His travels informed his writing, and he often travelled with other Cambridge and King's companions. A legacy from his great-aunt allowed Forster to travel extensively from 1901.

This led to uncertainty about what career he should enter. There was a report that the Dead March was to be played in chapel, which was accordingly crammed, but nothing happened.'ĭespite obvious talents (he received prizes for Classics and English), Forster received a second class degree. In his undergraduate diary for 1898, Forster mentions a luncheon followed by playing Schubert with Oscar Browning, saying that 'he and I played Schubert to the delight of the others. Like Lucy ( A Room with a View), he could play piano. Influential Apostles at the time included such Kingsmen as the art critic Roger Fry and the economist Maynard Keynes (both angels – members who have graduated) and the poet Rupert Brooke (an undergraduate at the time).įorster's novel’s are full of references to music. After graduating he became an 'angel' and continued to be active in the society. It was in his fourth year that his friend Hugh Meredith sponsored Forster to become a member of the secret University debating society called the Apostles. Forster stayed on for a fourth year to read history, being tutored in this capacity by Oscar Browning, and at the same time came under the influence of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, who became a lifelong friend. His tutor, Nathaniel Wedd, was of some influence on the young Forster, encouraging him to become a writer and more generally being responsible, according to Forster, for 'such awakening as has befallen me'. After a number of unhappy years in public schools, Forster came up to King's in 1897 to read Classics.

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