>Joanna doesn't appreciate John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, who
>(considering his early death) wrote a quite astounding body of great
>poems. But in any case "aristocrat" (in the sense of titled nobility) is
>too narrow a category. Milton came from a _very_ substantial family.
>Byron doesn't count, but Shelley came from a substantial "gentleman's"
>background.
And wasn't Forster the only canonical Brit novelist of the 19th and early 20th cent who didn't come from some kind of upper-class background?
Doug