![]() ![]() ![]() It’s 1913, a repressive time in England for men of a different stripe. Now a writer named William di Canzio has written a novel, Alec, that picks up where Maurice left off. ![]() Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder are not freaks and they don’t destroy themselves at the end of the book.įifty years after its publication and more than a hundred years after it was written, Maurice remains enduringly popular. Homosexuality was still a crime in Britain in 1912-1913, so Forster feared serious backlash from such a novel, especially since it has a happy, positive conclusion. The reason for the delay in publication is the novel’s unusual subject matter: an upper-class gentleman, Maurice Hall, has a homosexual affair with a man of the lower class, Alec Scudder, who happens to work as a gamekeeper for the salary of twelve pounds a year. He wrote his novel Maurice in 1912-1913, but it wasn’t published until 1971, after his death. ![]()
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