June 2011
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“Whilst of the cruise [in 1928], the couple [He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn] visited...”
– Mad World by Paula Byrne
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“The long school holidays [1926] were spent almost entirely in Alistair...”
– Mad World by Paula Byrne
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“A Christmas [1926->1927] holiday with Alistair [Graham] in Athens was...”
– Mad World by Paula Byrne
And this post is number 1000. :-)
May 2011
325 posts
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“From Eton he [William Lygon, later the 7the Earl Beauchamp, Hugh’s father]...”
– Mad World by Paula Byrne
She came; she admired my rooms… “My brothers Simon and Ned were here, you know. Ned had rooms on the garden front. I wanted Sebastian to come here, too, but my husband was at Christ Church and, as you know, he took charge of Sebastian’s ...
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“Next Thursday I am to visite a Father Underhill about being a parson. Last night...”
– Evelyn Waugh in his diary, Fabriary 20, 1927.
[via Paula Byrne’s Mad World]
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“On becoming the Earl Beauchamp in 1866, Frederick threw himself into the life of...”
– Mad World by Paula Byrne
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“As Waugh developed as a writer, he perfected a technique of combining the...”
– Mad World by Paula Byrne
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“No one in our class will ever starve because he can always go as a prep school...”
– Evelyn Waugh to his school friend Dudley Carew.
[via Paula Byrne’s Mad World]
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“After Evelyn [Waugh]’s humiliating departure from Oxford, he returned home...”
– Mad World by Payla Byrne.
“If he wants to be always tight, why doesn’t he go to Kenya or somewhere where it doesn’t matter?” “Why does it matter less being unhappy in Kenya than anywhere else?” “Don’t pretend to be stupid, Charles. You...
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“When he [Evelyn Waugh] returned to London in the holidays, he saw a lot of...”
– Mad World by Paula Byrne
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His [William the 7th earl’s] children noticed that he rarely mentioned his own childhood, school or Oxford days, and only visited his old governess, who lived in an almshouse in the village, out of duty.
— Madresfield by Jane Mulvagh
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Narrow loins
In Stuart times a clear distinction was made between ‘wooing’, merely flirtation without commitments, and ‘wiving’, a serious attempt to court a woman with a view to marriage. Contemporary letters and diaries are pepped with the vocabulary of battle, a chess game, a hunt or even downright war. William Lawrence, writing to his brother in 1667, reported that ‘after a...
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kaiserbund:
Things to do when you’re bored: Upload a particularly grumpy-looking photo of the Waugh household on facebook and tag your friends as the numerous servants and children.
I think we all know who I tagged myself as
Because if anyone’s going to grow up to be a bitter, middle-class alcoholic writer, it’s me
No way. ‘S me.
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Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh, who has died aged 61, was the most controversial, the most abusive, perhaps the most brilliant journalist of his age - an acerbic wit, a traveller, a farceur, an epicure; above all, a hater of humbug in all its forms and of politicians in most of theirs.
Auberon Waugh, eldest son of novelist Evelyn Waugh, and his bride Lady Teresa Onslow, married July 1961. Photo: PA
His...
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Through out the second world war bananas were in short supply in a Britain enduring severe food rationing. By the time the first bananas were imported from the Caribbean, many children that had grown up during the conflict had never seen let alone eaten a banana. Indeed Evelyn Waugh famously traumatised his son, Auberon, by consuming by himself and in front of his son, the first Banana Auberon...
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“I still see him [Evelyn Waugh] as a prancing faun, thinly disguised by...”
– Harold Acton
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It is hard to imagine Waugh, whose physique and mannerisms call to mind a stocky cleric, roped to the tall, Botticellian beauty Hugh as they pulled a sledge across the frozen tundra.
— Madresfield by Jane Mulvagh
Is it, really? I do imagine it. I wish I didn’t.
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Drinking, by Evelyn Waugh
Extract ‘Drinking’ from The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh (1984)
In my childhood wine was a rare treat; an adult privilege to which I was admitted on special occasions. At my school there was no tabu against drinking (as there was against tobacco). Housemasters occasionally made a mild grog or cup for senior boys. I remember being embarrassed when one Ascension Day...
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“Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity.”
– Alexander Waugh
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