History Literature / WhereAngelsFearToTread

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title comes from Alexander Pope ("Fools rush in where angels fear to tread").

A film version, directed by Charles Sturridge and starring several well-known, mostly British actors (Rupert Graves, Creator/HelenMirren, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/JudyDavis, Giovanni Guidelli), was released in 1991. Apart from adding a slight hopeful note to the ending, it was quite faithful to the book, to the point that some viewers considered this a fault. It received a somewhat mixed reception overall; the ''Washington Post''[='=]s review seems to have summed it up fairly well, remarking, "On the whole, it's rather like reading without the effort of holding the book. For many, this will do quite nicely, thank you. Others will find it all too stranglingly Anglophilic, which is perhaps the point."

* TheEdwardianEra: Published in 1905 and set in the recent past.

Debut novel by EMForster first published in 1905. It is a dark comedy about a clash of cultures between the staid English middle class and the more ebullient Italians.

* AtTheOperaTonight: Philip, Caroline and Harriet attend a performance of LuciaDiLammermoor at a provincial opera house. Harriet, who has only been persuaded because it's Creator/WalterScott, is not impressed with the boisterous audience and makes her feelings known. HilarityEnsues.

->''"She looked at him with great friendliness, for he had made her life endurable. At that moment the train entered the San Gotthard tunnel. They hurried back to the carriage to close the windows lest the smuts should get into Harriet's eyes."''

* HoYay: Philip and Gino get on remarkably well, to the point where Philip sheds his BritishStuffiness.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Philip and Gino get on remarkably well, to the point where Philip sheds his BritishStuffiness.

->''"She looked at him with great friendliness, for he had made her life endurable. At that moment the train entered the San Gothard tunnel. They hurried back to the carriage to close the windows lest the smuts should get into Harriet's eyes."''

Debut novel by EMForster first published in 1905. It is a dark comedy about a clash of cultures between the staid English middle class and

-''"She looked at him with great friendliness, for he had made her life endurable. At that moment the train entered the San Gothard tunnel. They hurried back to the carriage to close the windows lest the smuts should get into Harriet's eyes."

* DevotedParent: Gino is indifferent to his wife while she's alive, but he genuinely adores his son.

* Jerkass: Harriet, who has no social skills and no empathy whatsoever.

* RaisedByGrandparents: Lilia's young daughter, Irma

* BritishStuffiness: Lots of it from Mrs Herriton and especially Harriet

* HoYay: Philip and Geno get on remarkably well, to the point where Philip sheds his BritishStuffiness.

Debut novel by EMForster first published in 1905.

Lilia Herriton, an impulsive young English widow, travels to Italy with her companion, Caroline Abbott. Her in-laws, anxious to preserve the good name of the family, become concerned when she decides to stay in Italy, and send her brother-in-law Philip to fetch her home. Unfortunately by the time he arrives Lilia is already married to a local youth and pregnant with her second child. The Herritons then scheme to gain control of the baby and bring it home to be raised as English.

DeathByChildbirth: Lilia.

EvilMatriarch: Mrs Herriton has few if any redeeming features.

HoYay: Philip and Geno get on remarkably well, to the point where Philip sheds his BritishStuffiness.

ManipulativeBitch: Mrs Herriton will stop at nothing to prevent her daughter-in-law besmirching the name of her dead son.

TheEdwardianEra: Published in 1905 and set in the recent past.