Selected material on Forster Country and E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Poston and Malcolm Williamson who all lived in Rooks Nest House at different times 

Books

Forster, E. M [1910] (2000) Howards End. Penguin Books. 302 pp. [includes suggestions for further reading]

 

Ashby, Margaret (1991) Forster Country. Flaunden Press. 196 pp.  Copies can be supplied by The Friends of the Forster Country

 

Duckworth, Alistair (1992) ‘Howards End’: E. M. Forster’s House of Fiction. John Hopkins University

 

Beauman, Nicola (1993) A Biography of E. M. Forster. Hodder & Stoughton. 404 pp.

 

Bartlett, Jamie Clare (1996) Beyond the Apple Tree: The Published Music of Elizabeth Poston. Doctorate Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

 

Ashby, Margaret (2005) Elizabeth Poston, Composer: Her Life at Rooks Nest, Stevenage. The Friends of the Forster Country, 40 pp. Out of print.

 

Meredith, Anthony. & Paul Harris (2007) Malcolm Williamson: A Mischievous Muse. Omnibus Press. 534 pp.

 

Articles 

Alabaster, John S. (2009) Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987). The Maud Powell Signature. http://www.maudpowell.org/signature/

 

Alabaster, John S (2014) The Remarkable Miss Poston. Hertfordshire Life, July 2014, pp. 93-93.

 

Alabaster, John S. (2015) Elizabeth Poston and the Heseltine Family. Newsletter No. 96. Journal of the Peter Warlock Society – Spring 2015, pp. 3-15

 

Alabaster, John S. (2018) Discovery of Warlock/Poston Letters. Newsletter No. 103. Journal of the Peter Warlock Society – Autumn 2018, pp. 14

 

Alabaster, John S. (2019) Discovery of New Peter Warlock Limericks and Poems. Newsletter No. 104. Journal of the Peter Warlock Society - Spring 2019. pp. 5-19. They were discovered in Rooks Nest House.

 

 

Video & DVD

 

Ashby, Margaret (2005) Elizabeth Poston at Rooks Nest. The Friends of the Forster Country. [includes Elizabeth Poston singing Cuddle In to her own accompaniment] Out of print.