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Waugh was born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, in 1866, [1] elder son of prosperous country physician Alexander Waugh (1840-1906), who bullied his wife and children and became known in the Waugh family as "the Brute", and Annie (née Morgan), of a strict Plymouth Brethren background.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː /; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead ...
The Hon. Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner [ 2 ] was born on 27 September 1903 in London. She was the youngest of four daughters born to Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere, and Lady Winifred Anne Henrietta Christiana (née Herbert) Byng. [ 3 ] Her mother was the widow of Captain Alfred John George Byng (a son of George Byng, 2nd Earl ...
Alec Waugh. Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic and publisher. His first wife was Barbara Jacobs (1900-1996) (daughter of the writer William Wymark Jacobs), his second wife was ...
1934 (Hardback) 1951 (Paperback) Publication place. United Kingdom. A Handful of Dust is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh. First published in 1934, it is often grouped with the author's early, satirical comic novels for which he became famous in the pre– World War II years. Some commentators regard it as a transitional work due to ...
The novelist Evelyn Waugh had been familiar with the Diary since his childhood. It was a great favourite of his parents—Arthur Waugh used to read passages aloud to his family, [28] and Evelyn's biographer Selina Hastings has drawn attention to the distinctly Pooterish elements in the Waugh household. [29]
Sword of Honour. The Sword of Honour is a trilogy of novels by Evelyn Waugh which loosely parallel Waugh's experiences during the Second World War. Published by Chapman & Hall from 1952 to 1961, the novels are: Men at Arms (1952); Officers and Gentlemen (1955); and Unconditional Surrender (1961), marketed as The End of the Battle in the United ...
Arthur James Waugh. Arthur James Waugh (1909 – 1995) was an English politician, and the son of a railwayman. Born in Warrington, Lancashire, his left wing political beliefs were forged early in his life when, as an apprentice fitter in Rugby, he was fired during the 1926 General Strike at 17 years of age. That experience was never forgotten ...