The same could explain why Foster referred to Carpenter as his savior since he helped him discover it was not abnormal to be attracted to fellow men. According to Foster, Carpenter stated that there was such love as between a man and his fellow man and such a man could not live with a woman for a partner. Upon the visit, Foster discovered Carpenter was a homosexual and he lived with his partner Merrill. In the later years of his life, Foster revealed that the thought of writing the book was born when he visited Edward Carpenter, who was also a poet, a sexual activist, as well as a philosopher. Notably, before the novel, no other book had been written on the topic may be owing to the social restraints and norms. Maurice, written in 1913, is a very bold piece about men’s love towards each other. Albeit Foster never married, it is rumored that most likely he had intimate affairs with men and was oriented to be a homosexual thus the interest in the topic he wrote (Adair, 2013).

In the fiction book Maurice, Foster depicts the act that he had sisters and brothers albeit, in real life, he was an only child. Owing to the above social aspects, Foster chose to keep the book from the public (Adair, 2013). The reason for the delay mainly had to do with the law, since at that time, homosexual tendencies were condemned as an immoral behavior in England. Albeit the book was written at the onset of the 20th century, it was published after more than a century elapsed.

Maurice (1971) is the last novel that Forster wrote its main theme was the homosexual love between males.

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