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Their Hands Upon the Ropes: A Look at E.M Forster’s “Howards End”

Posted on April 26, 2001 by Louis William Rose

Within the first twenty-eight chapters of the novel, Howards End, by E.M.Forster, the author employs six variations of the idiomatic expression “hands upon the ropes” in connection with the two sisters, Margaret and Helen Schlegel, Leonard Bast, and Henry Wilcox, … Continue reading →

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