T. E. Lawrence — E. M. Forster

Steve Newman Writer
6 min readNov 22, 2021

“ T. E. liked to meet people upon a platform of his own designing.”

Image of Forster: thepunchmagazine.com

Novelist E. M. Forster, author of Howards End and many another hugely influential novel of the early 20th century, thought Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom was a masterpiece but never told Lawrence as he thought that might be ‘fatal’ to their friendship.

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