Classics · LightLucy Honeychurch travels through Italy with her chaperone, where the unconventional Emerson family unsettles her expectations
A Room with a View
A young Englishwoman's trip to Florence changes how she sees her life
Lucy Honeychurch travels through Italy with her cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Encounters with George Emerson and his father, an unconventional father and son, unsettle her expectations. Back in England, at the Honeychurch family home, Windy Corner, she faces pressure to marry Cecil Vyse, a sophisticated London aesthete whose social polish masks his pretensions, and her feelings for the Emersons persist. Edward Arnold published it in 1908.
More about this book
Who
Lucy Honeychurch, Charlotte Bartlett, George and Mr. Emerson, Cecil Vyse and Mr. Beebe.
World
Florence and Rome, then Surrey, England, in the Edwardian era.
What makes it different
Forster worked on it for several years, calling it the "Lucy novel." A 1958 appendix, "A View without a Room," follows the characters later.
Feel
Sunny and gently comic.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- A Room with a ViewWikipedia