First published in 1908 A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery Forster s heroine Lucy Honeychurch finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor. In the end however Lucy takes control of her own fate and finds love with a man whose free spirit reminds her of a room with a view.