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- Margaret Schlegel
- Henry Wilcox
- Helen Schlegel
- Leonard Bast
- Ruth Wilcox
- Charles Wilcox
- Theobald ("Tibby") Schlegel
- Aunt Juley Mund
- Paul Wilcox
- Evie Wilcox
The chief protagonist of the novel, a 29- year-old woman of mixed English and German heritage living in London in the early years of the twentieth century. Sister to Helen and Tibby; later Henry Wilcox's wife. Imaginative and committed to "personal relations," Margaret is the chief representative of the Schlegel family, which represents the idealis...
The patriarch of the Wilcox family, a prominent businessman in London. Married to Ruth Wilcox and later to Margaret. Stuffy, conventional, and chauvinistic, Henry is the chief representative of the Wilcox family, which represents the pragmatic, materialistic aspect of the English upper classes.
Margaret's sister, a passionate, flighty girl of 21 who lives for art, literature, and "human relations." Like Margaret, Helen is a representative of the idealistic, cultured Schlegel family, which represents the intellectual aspect of the upper classes. But Helen, who is prettier than Margaret, is also much less grounded and far more prone to exce...
A poor insurance clerk on the very bottom rung of the middle class--he has money for food, clothing, and a place to live, but not much else, and is constantly beset with financial worries. Married to Jacky. Leonard represents the aspirations of the lower classes; he is obsessed with self-improvement and reads constantly, hoping to lift himself up. ...
Henry's wife, who dies in the first half of the novel. Gentle, selfless, loving, and strangely omniscient, Mrs. Wilcox seems to represent the past of England. Howards End belongs to her, and she attempts to leave it to Margaret when she dies, an attempt which is blocked by Henry and Charles.
The oldest Wilcox son, a self-centered, aggressive, moralistic young man who represents the negative aspects of the Wilcoxes' materialistic pragmatism. Married to Dolly. Charles is sentenced to three years in prison at the end of the novel for the killing of Leonard Bast.
Tibby is Margaret and Helen's younger brother, a peevish 16-year-old, who grows up and attends Oxford. Tibby is prone to acting out the flaws of the Schlegel family--their excessive aestheticism, indulgence in luxury, and indolence--but shows real improvement by the end of the novel.
The sister of Margaret, Helen, and Tibby's deceased mother. Though goodhearted, she is a meddling, conventional woman.
The youngest Wilcox son, who travels to Nigeria to make his fortune in the British colony. Before he leaves, he has a brief romance with Helen Schlegel.
The youngest Wilcox daughter, a self-centered, petulant young girl who, at 18, marries Percy Cahill.
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Feb 26, 1993 · Howards End: Directed by James Ivory. With Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Bennett, Emma Thompson. Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.
- (36K)
- Drama, Romance
- James Ivory
- 1993-02-26
Howards End is a 1992 period romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, from a screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the 1910 novel of the same name by E. M. Forster. Marking Merchant Ivory Productions ' third adaptation of a Forster novel (following 1985's A Room with a View , and 1987's Maurice ), it was the first film to be released by Sony Pictures Classics .
AwardCategoryNominee (s)ResultNominatedNominatedWonNominatedJun 5, 2024 · Cast of Howards End TV ( 2017 - 2017 ) • 26 total actors • BBC One Howards End is a British television series based on the novel of the same name by E.M. Forster.
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