Speaking of this novel, and one of his last works, A Maggot (1985), he said in a Guardian interview, "I wanted to show the seeds of an intense future evolution in a particular period." Like the Forster, it was a spiritual adventure story, written with rhapsodic excitement, engulfing its mid-Victorian characters in huge shifts of time, culture, place and authorial tone, while also setting them on a course of moral evolution.
Yet his most complete success, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), caused more literary wonder than almost any event since the publication of EM Forster's A Passage to India in 1924, and won the WH Smith award in 1970.
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