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Arthur Beebe: character portrait from A Room with a View (Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan))

A character in A Room with a View

Arthur Beebe

A Room with a View by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

The genial clergyman who becomes rector of Summer Street and remains the Emersons' one friend in Florence, an amused, tolerant observer of Lucy's romantic entanglements who nonetheless mistrusts marriage.

Also known as: Mr. Beebe, the clergyman, the Reverend Arthur Beebe

Inside the story

Meet Arthur Beebe

The Reverend Arthur Beebe is a genial English clergyman in Florence, where he knows the Emersons and serves as their principal friend among the English visitors. Amused and tolerant, he observes Lucy Honeychurch's romantic entanglements while remaining skeptical of marriage.

On the page

A stout but attractive clergyman with a cheerful, hurrying manner, dressed in clerical black.

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