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Rooms with little left to view: the queer spaces of E.M. Forster and others

Diarmuid Hester goes in search of the private places of eight remarkable figures from the 20th century, to find only Derek Jarman’s cottage preserved intact as a shrine

Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage on the shingle at Dungeness. [Getty Images]
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