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

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Eleanor Lavish

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

A self-styled emancipated lady novelist at the Pension Bertolini who loves to shed the trammels of respectability, and who later fictionalizes Lucy and George's kiss in her novel.

Also known as: Miss Lavish, the clever lady

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Meet Eleanor Lavish

Miss Eleanor Lavish is a self-styled emancipated lady novelist staying at the Pension Bertolini in Florence. She presents herself as a clever, unconventional woman who wants to cast off the trammels of respectability, and becomes one of Lucy Honeychurch’s fellow guests.

On the page

A vigorous, clever middle-aged Englishwoman of bohemian, unconventional dress and emphatic manner, forever proclaiming her scorn for respectability.

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