Howards End happens at more of a remove, and Forster declines to linger over the intense emotions of anyone. It was usually how to treat a particular loyal friend whose profound back story you know and who just happens to also be wholly dependent on you for his livelihood. But the questions it was asking were always translated through intensely personal relationships, and the question was rarely how to treat those you employ on principle. Some of the issues of class here were hinted at in the resentments of Downton Abbey, of course there's a good reason the cast included both the wealthy family and the servants it employed.

When the Wilcoxes and Schlegels become entangled with each other and then with the Basts, it falls to Margaret to ground a story that concerns itself in large part with how people treat each other, not personally but sociologically. The families are in turn very rich and flashy (the Wilcoxes), comfortable and intellectual (the Schlegels), and working class on the edge of true poverty (the Basts). Howards End is a story about class and morality and how they operate in three families. Wilcox and Tracey Ullman, who as Aunt Juley has a warm and funny take on the dotty aunt beloved in so many novels. Darcy opposite Keira Knightley in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice, as Henry Wilcox Julia Ormond as the first Mrs. The cast includes Hayley Atwell in Thompson's role of Margaret Schlegel Matthew Macfadyen, who played Mr. Playwright Kenneth Lonergan, known to American film audiences for thoughtful pieces like Manchester By The Sea and You Can Count On Me, wrote the screenplay, and Hettie Macdonald, who directed Beautiful Thing and several episodes of Doctor Who, directed this series as well. That's why it's important that the 2017 miniseries, which first aired on the BBC but premiered on Starz Sunday night, makes a strong case for itself. There are people who would argue that it's all the adaptation the book will ever need. Forster novel Howards End was successfully adapted in 1992 by Merchant Ivory, and it won Emma Thompson an Oscar. Hayley Atwell stars in the adaptation of Howards End that begins Sunday night on Starz.

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