![]() ![]() ![]() Helen sleeps with him out of pity when this fails and disappears the Europe.Įventually, we discover that Helen is pregnant. Margaret becomes close to Henry, however, and marries him, making the children dislike her. The Schlegels try to help the Basts, a poorer couple, and enlist the help of Henry Wilcox to get him a job. It was not legal it had been written in inllness, and under the spell of a sudden friendship… to them Howards End was a house: they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir” 114. Ought the Wilcoxes to have offered their home to Margaret? I think not. “It is rather a moment when the commentator should step forward. ![]() She leaves it to Margaret on her deathbed in a moment of pity that she will be kicked out of Wickham Place (another Jane Austen reference!), but the Wilcoxes throw away the paper on which she writes it (like Middlemarch). Unlike their grander places in town, etc., Ruth Wilcox’s house at Howards End has been handed down from her family, rather than purchased with the new money of the Wilcoxes. They meet the Wilcoxes, wealthy capitalists who have made their money in colonial rubber and are less artistic but more common-sensical. The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen (and their brother Tibby) are half-German intellectuals living in London. ![]()
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