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Howards End
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The intellectual Schlegel sisters become entangled with the wealthy Wilcox family after Helen's brief attachment to Paul Wilcox. Margaret Schlegel later forms a deeper relationship with the widowed Henry Wilcox, while the fate of the country house Howards End links the two families through a promise that Henry prefers to ignore.
Their world also intersects with Leonard Bast, a poorly paid clerk whose efforts at self-improvement leave him vulnerable to advice from people protected by money. Through marriage, inheritance and an avoidable tragedy, the novel examines class inequality, industrial modernity and Margaret's belief that private feeling must be connected to public responsibility.
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