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    Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books;...
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    Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was a British writer, journalist and reviewer, generally considered one of the leading English prose writers of the 20th century...
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    Baron Burghclere, and the first wife of Evelyn Waugh. She was one of the Bright Young Things. The Hon. Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner was born...
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  • Brideshead Revisited (category Novels by Evelyn Waugh)
    Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s...
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  • Alexander Waugh /ˈɔːbərən ˈwɔː/ (17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was an English journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He...
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    for the part-time services of a cook and a servant-cum-barman. After Evelyn Waugh was introduced to the club by Terence Lucy Greenidge, many of his contemporary...
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  • A Handful of Dust (category Novels by Evelyn Waugh)
    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...
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    Dorothy Sayers (Murder Must Advertise), and the poet John Betjeman. Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies, adapted as the 2003 film Bright Young Things...
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    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...
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  • Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (born 1963) is an English writer, critic, and journalist. Among other books, he has written Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography...
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  • Vile Bodies (category Novels by Evelyn Waugh)
    Vile Bodies is the second novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1930. It satirises the bright young things, the rich young people partying in London after...
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  • Mitford, Alan S. C. Ross, "Strix" and Christopher Sykes, a letter by Evelyn Waugh, and a poem by John Betjeman. Until Nancy Mitford wrote "The English...
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    honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh, and, according to Waugh's letters, one of his "romances". He is, together with Hugh...
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    (1994). Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939–1966. London: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31166-2. Sykes, Christopher (1975). Evelyn Waugh – a Biography...
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  • Decline and Fall (category Novels by Evelyn Waugh)
    Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928. It was Waugh's first published novel; an earlier attempt, titled The Temple at Thatch, was destroyed by Waugh while...
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    tenure as dean that the feud with Evelyn Waugh developed while Waugh was a history scholar at Hertford in 1922–1924. Waugh pursued this hostility until shortly...
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  • Helena, published in 1950, is the sole historical novel of Evelyn Waugh. In the preface Waugh writes in part: "The reader may reasonably inquire: how much...
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  • Arthur Waugh (27 August 1866 – 26 June 1943) was an English author, literary critic and publisher. He was the father of the authors Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh...
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  • Sword of Honour (category Novels by Evelyn Waugh)
    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...
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  • Scoop (novel) (category Novels by Evelyn Waugh)
    Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. William Boot, a young...
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    mixed with many intellectual and literary figures of the age, including Evelyn Waugh, who based the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited partly...
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  • at Arms is a 1952 novel by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh. Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's Sword of Honour series, the author's look at the...
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  • Brideshead Revisited (TV series) (category Films based on works by Evelyn Waugh)
    serial is an adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances...
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    on the list. In February 2016, Time included the male British author Evelyn Waugh on its "100 Most Read Female Writers in College Classes" list, generating...
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    Jesuit Underground, Translated by Philip Caraman, with an introduction by Evelyn Waugh, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York. Pages 18, note 12. early_books/howard...
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  • grandchildren of the author Evelyn Waugh and great-grandchildren of the publisher and literary critic Arthur Waugh. Waugh grew up from the age of four...
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    Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939–1966. W. W. Norton. p. 240. ISBN 0-393-03412-7 Borello, A. (1970). “Evelyn Waugh and Earl Stanley Gardner”. Evelyn...
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  • 1982), Salvadorian cyclist Evelyn Gardner (1903–1994), English aristocrat and socialite, and first wife of Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Gigantes (born 1945), Canadian...
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    Green. OCLC 459617198. Waugh, Evelyn (1983). A Little Learning. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-006604-7. Waugh, Evelyn (1945). Brideshead Revisited...
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    part of the Bright Young Things who inspired the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, who was Olivia's suitor. She was born on 7 March 1907, the daughter...
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