A Room with a View
Glossary
Pensione
A small family-run hotel in Italy.
Baedeker
A famous travel guidebook.
Chaperone
An older woman who keeps an eye on a young one.
Cockney
A working-class Londoner. A snob's insult in the book.
Arno
The river through Florence.
Edwardian
The years around 1901 to 1910 in Britain.
Signora
Italian for a married woman, Mrs.
Rector
A parish priest.
Medieval
Old-fashioned. Cecil is called it.
Windy Corner
The Honeychurch family home in Surrey.
Image credits
- Guidebook, opera glasses, violets, straw hat and postcards, Illustration by VoxRead, AI-generated for VoxRead