Prabhavananda, Swami (1893–1976). Hindu monk belonging to the Ramakrishna Order who founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California. Isherwood studied with him beginning in 1940.
Priestley, John Boynton (J. B.) (1894–1984). Novelist, playwright, and literary critic. His works include the novels The Good Companions (1929) and It’s an Old Country (1967), the plays Dangerous Corner (1932) and Time and the Conways (1937), and the critical essays in Literature and Western Man (1960).
Raven, Simon (1927–2001). Novelist who also wrote essays, film scripts, and television series. He is the author of a ten-volume work, Alms for Oblivion (1959–76).
Roerick, William (Bill) (d. 1995). American actor who was a friend of Isherwood’s and, later, Forster’s. His name is often misspelled in the letters as “Roehrich” or “Roehrick.”
Sassoon, Sir Philip (1888–1939). Politician, art collector, and social host.
He was Secretary of State for Air from 1924 to 1929 and 1931 to 1937. His cousin was the poet, Siegfried Sassoon.
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967). Poet and autobiographer. His poetic works include Satirical Poems (1926), Vigils (1936), and Sequences (1956).
He also wrote a three-volume autobiography of his childhood.
Shankar, Uday (1900–1977). Indian classical dancer and choreographer.
He toured Western countries in the 1930s with his own troupe. His brother, Ravi Shankar, was a musician.
Simpson, John Hampson (1901–55). Novelist who wrote under the name
“John Hampson.” His most popular novel was Saturday Night at the Greyhound (1931). His other novels include The Family Curse (1936) and Care of “The Grand” (1939).
Smith, Dodie (1896–1990). Playwright and novelist. She emigrated to the Unites States with her husband, Alec Beesley, in 1938. Her works include the novel, I Capture the Castle (1948) and a four-volume autobiography.
Spender, Stephen (1909–95). Poet, critic, and editor. He was closely associated with Isherwood and Auden in the 1930s. His works of poetry include pal-zeik-04bio 4/21/08 10:36 AM Page 170
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Poems (1933) and The Still Centre (1939). His non-fiction includes critical essays in The Struggle of the Modern (1963) and his acclaimed autobiography, World within World (1951).
Sprott, Walter John Herbert (W. J. H.) (1897–1971). Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham from 1948 to 1964. A close friend of Forster’s and his literary executor. Author of Human Groups (1958).
Tennant, Stephen (1906–87). Artist and aesthete. Forster and Buckingham often spent weekends at his home, Wilsford Manor. He is considered to be the model for “Sebastian” in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Brideshead Revisited.
Thomson, George (1903–82). Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham from 1937.
Toller, Ernst (1893–1939). German Jewish writer and political activist. He was a pacifist during World War I. His works include Once a Bourgeois always a Bourgeois (1928) and Miracle in America (1931). He committed suicide in New York in 1939.
Vaughan, Keith (1912–77). Painter and illustrator. He was a conscientious objector during World War II.
Viertel, Berthold (1885–1953). Austrian playwright and film director. He directed films in Hollywood in the 1920s and in England beginning in 1933. He hired Isherwood to write the screenplay for Little Friend.
Watson, Peter (d. 1956). Art collector. Co-founder (together with Cyril Connolly) and art editor of the magazine, Horizon.
Wells, Herbert George (H. G.) (1866–1946). Novelist. His major works of science fiction include The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898). He is also the author of Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900), Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905), and Tono-Bungay (1909).
Wescott, Glenway (1901–87). American writer who lived in France in the 1920s. His best-known works include The Apple of the Eye (1924), The Grandmothers (1926), and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940). He served as President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 1957 to 1961.
Wilder, Thornton (1897–1975). American playwright. His plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of our Teeth (1942) were both awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote The Matchmaker (1955), upon which the musical Hello Dolly! (1963) was based.
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Woolf, Leonard (1880–1969). Author of works on politics and international affairs as well as a five-volume autobiography. He and his wife, Virginia, founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, and their home was a meeting place for the Bloomsbury Group in the 1920s and 1930s.
Woolf, Virginia (1882–1941). Novelist. Her key modernist works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She is also the author of A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), both considered classic feminist texts.
Young, Edward Hilton (Lord Kennet) (1879–1960). Politician and writer.
Friend of Forster’s. He was a Member of Parliament and served as a dele-gate to the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1926 and 1927.
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List of Correspondence
Letters from Christopher Isherwood to E. M. Forster
The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster
King’s College Cambridge Archive
EMF/18/82/1: Correspondence between
Forster and Isherwood 1932–62
(Original) Letters from Isherwood to Forster
October 1932
p. 1
handwritten
July 8. [1933]
p. 2
handwritten
July 22. [1933]
p. 3
handwritten
April 5. [1934]
p. 4
handwritten
April 30. [1934]
p. 5
handwritten
May 28. [1934]
p. 6
typed and handwritten postscript
August 26. [1934]
pp. 7–8
typed
February 7. [?1935]
p. 9
typed
December 21, 1935
p. 10
typed and three handwritten
postscript greetings
January 15. [1936]
p. 11
typed
March 31. [1936]
p. 12
typed
May 12. [probably 1936] p. 13
handwritten
May 23. [1936]
pp. 14–15
typed
August 8. [1936]
p. 16
typed
October 25. [1936]
p. 17
typed