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Cuthbert Eager: character portrait from A Room with a View (E. M. Forster)

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Cuthbert Eager

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

The censorious English chaplain of the resident colony in Florence who lectures on art and disdains the Emersons, embodying the snobbish respectability Lucy must escape.

Also known as: Mr. Eager, the chaplain, the Reverend Cuthbert Eager

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Meet Cuthbert Eager

Reverend Cuthbert Eager is the censorious English chaplain serving the resident British colony in Florence. He lectures on art, upholds the colony’s rules of respectable conduct, and looks down on the Emersons, whose presence places him at odds with Lucy’s circle.

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