31st March
In April 1905 he was thinking, without much enthusiasm, about teaching. Four years after graduating from Cambridge, and in the same year as he published his first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, Forster spent three months working as a tutor in Germany. He described his employer as 'rather disappointing’, with 'false teeth and a society drawl’. After telling his mother that he was required to be strict with the children in lessons, he wrote to her about the weather and the view: 'It’s not quite raining, and the view is woods, a farm with two chimneys, and manure’. (Source: Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank (London: Collins, 1983-1985), letter of 4 April 1905)
