When Alec boldly climbs into the window of Maurice’s room late at night, a barrier between them falls away. They both harbor a secret that they keep from the world. When Maurice Hall goes to his friend’s estate for a visit, he encounters a gamekeeper named Alec Scudder. It’s 1913, a repressive time in England for men of a different stripe. Now a writer named William di Canzio has written a novel, Alec, that picks up where Maurice left off. Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder are not freaks and they don’t destroy themselves at the end of the book.įifty years after its publication and more than a hundred years after it was written, Maurice remains enduringly popular. Homosexuality was still a crime in Britain in 1912-1913, so Forster feared serious backlash from such a novel, especially since it has a happy, positive conclusion. The reason for the delay in publication is the novel’s unusual subject matter: an upper-class gentleman, Maurice Hall, has a homosexual affair with a man of the lower class, Alec Scudder, who happens to work as a gamekeeper for the salary of twelve pounds a year. He wrote his novel Maurice in 1912-1913, but it wasn’t published until 1971, after his death.
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