How it was written

Forster started A Room with a View after his own trip to Italy, and kept coming back to it.

1. 
   1903

   Greece and Italy

   After Cambridge, Forster travelled in Greece and Italy, drawn by their classical past.

2. 
   1903 to 1904

   Put aside

   In 1903 and 1904 he pushed the Italian novel aside to work on other books.

3. 
   1905

   A first novel

   His first published novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, was also set partly in Italy.

4. 
   1908

   Published

   He was still revising it in 1908, the year it came out.

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