X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Howards End


Elizabeth Poston

She wrote the score for the television production of Howards End while living in Rooks Nest House near Stevenage, where E.M. Forster had lived as a child, and which was the setting for the novel.

Howards End

Forster based his description of Howards End on a house at Rooks Nest in Hertfordshire, his childhood home from 1883 to 1893.

However, Forster's conception of it owed a great deal to 1, All Souls Place, where the sisters of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson lived.


Nicola Duffett

Prior to these roles, Duffett played the key role of Mrs. Bast in Ismail Merchant and James Ivory's 1992 film adaptation of Howards End.

Sarah-Jane Gwillim

She also appeared in the 1970 television version of Howards End, opposite Glenda Jackson.


see also