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British Literary Travelling Between the Wars Chapter 3

British Literary Travelling Between the Wars Chapter 3

Notes

Chapter 1

1. In 1951 Penguin issued simultaneously ten of Waugh's books in paper• back. This arrangement was of huge importance to his finances and to his reputation but it also involved him in autobiography. On the back of each book appeared a photograph of the author, sleek and slender, above a biographical description or 'author's blurb' of about 340 words. Waugh's blurb for the Penguin mass publication is his most widely dis• seminated autobiographical statement (none of the authors so far republished in this way had sold less than a million copies in the first year), and since it reveals him presenting a retouched and restored pic• ture of himself to the public, most telling in its omissions and silences, its statements, taken piecemeal, will provide useful points of reference and return for this short life. 2. See n. 1 above. 3. 'But even those familiar with the eternal dotage of our Universities, will scarcely believe that at Oxford, as late as 1924, Gibbon's was still presented as a set book to candidates, about to embark on a two years' study, not of literature, but history'. Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement (London: Routledge, 1929). 4. In 1955 Waugh took his daughter Teresa to Oxford for an admission interview; his diary reveals that he did not know where Somerville College was (D 748).

Chapter 2

1. 'Whether or not this incident really took place is almost irrelevant; what matters is that Evelyn was miserable enough to have thought that he wanted to die, even if not quite miserable enough to pursue the ambition to its end' (H 136). 2. Waugh's biographers have adopted from the couple's friends the con• venience of labelling him and his wife 'He-Evelyn' and 'She-Evelyn'. 3. See Paul Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Travelling between the Wars (New York, Oxford University Press, 1980).

Chapter 3

1. 'I can only be funny when I am complaining about something' (H 590). 2. One serious and surprising work of fiction from this period is his short story 'Out of Depth' (CRS 121-38) written in July 1933, his first openly Catholic story. 'Two months after denying, in his "Open Let-

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ter", that as a Catholic novelist he was "required to produce overtly propagandist art" he did precisely that' (IS 347). Old meadow did have his effect.

Chapter 4

1. The most important date in the publishing history of may actually be 1960, when Waugh issued a revised version consider• ably cut and rewritten with an explanatory preface. This text appears in the Penguin Modern Classics edition and in the Everyman's Library edition of 1993. 2. See Vane Ivanovic, LX. Memoirs of a Yugoslav (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977) p. 262. 3. His bestowal of the name 'Hinsley' on one of his characters led to the only recorded rebuke that this form of tease ever occasioned. Cardinal Hinsley's niece wrote to protest the use of her uncle's name for the sui• cidal pseud for whom Dennis composes his only original albeit deriv• ative poem. The letter is in the files of Waugh's agents now at the University of Texas.

Chapter 5

1. Pinfold is dedicated to Daphne Fielding. She had ended her memoir Mercury Presides (1954) by depicting herself on the last page writing the first page. Index

Note: works cited are by unless otherwise noted.

Abyssinia, 83-4, 85, 95 Aston Clinton, 49, 51-2 Church, 88-91 Austen, Jane, 1,211 Italian invasion, 113--14 autobiographical fiction, 3--6, 22 see also Remote People; Waugh 'Balance, The', 45-7 in Abyssinia Basil Seal Rides Again, 208-9 accidia (Sloth), 197-8 Brideshead Revisited, 141 Acton, Daphne, 193 Dickensian style, 5-6, 22 Acton, Harold, 33, 36, 44 , 103-4 Acton, Richard, 211 , 159-60 A. D. Peters Ltd, literary agent, Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The, 63,101,154 3-4,191 aesthetic theory, 56-8 protagonists, 121-2 Age of the Common Man, , 69-70 see Common Man 'Winner Takes All', 21-2 airplane crash, 145 autobiography, see : alcohol use, 43, 135 The First Volume of an Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Autobiography Carroll), 86-7 'American Epoch in the Catholic 'Balance, The', 38,42,45-8,121 Church, The', 167 Adam Doure, 45-8 annulment, 20, 75, 96, 99, narrative techniques, 40,70 102-3,109,110 stereotypes, 47-8 see also divorce Balzac, Honore de, 135, 205 'Anthony, Who Sought barbarism, 70-1,81-2, 93--5, 98-9 Things That Were Lost' baroque architecture, 142 33-5, 106-7 Basil Seal Rides Again, or, The Rake's Lady Elizabeth, 34-5, 106-7 Regress, 165, 208 anti-Americanism, 78, 143-4, 152 BBC interviews, 179, 191 Laved One, The, 154-6 Beaton, Cecil, 24 reversed, 166-7 Beevor, Antony, xi, 130 anti-Semitism, 82, 164, 192-3 Belloc, Hilaire, 5,79,113--14 see also Jews Bennett, Arnold, 69 Architectural Review (journal), 71 Besse, Antonin, 85 aristocracy, 36, 59, 91-2 Betjeman, John, 160 in military service, 127-8, 136 Betjeman, Penelope, 159 Arnold House, 41-3,48,52 biographies, 9-10, 54-6, 76 art, see drawing; Pre-Raphaelite see also Rossetti: His Life and Work; Brotherhood; Rossetti, Edmund Campion; The Life of Dante Gabriel the Right Reverend Ronald 'Aspirations of a Mugwamp', 81 Knox Asquith, Katherine, 102, 158 birth, 11

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Black Mischief, xi, 8-9, 83, 92-9, caricature, 47 104, 113, 115, 116 Carton de Wiart, Sir Adrian, 173, 180 attack in The Tablet, 95-9 Catholic Book Club, 117 Basil Seal, 93-94, 97-99, Catholicism, 2, 6-7, 8-9, 72-8, 134,150,157,181 87,99,212-13n Prudence,95,97-9 aggiornamento of Pope John XXIII, Seth, Emperor of Azania, 93-4 210-11 Blayac, Alain, xi vs Abyssinian Church, 88-91 Bloom, Harold,S aesthetics, 26, 80 Book of the Month Club, 108, 139 ambivalence, 39 Book Society, 117 American, 166-7 Bourne, Cardinal, Archbishop Black Mischief, 96-9 of Westminster, 95-8 Brideshead Revisited, 137-44, 168 Bracken, Brendan, 123,125, 138 conversion, 46, 74-5,140-1,176 Brideshead Revisited, xi, 3, 43, 66-7, D' Arcy, Father Martin, 74, 96,109 76,103,108,119,121,139-44, Decline and Fall, 62-3, 152,156,213n darkness vs light, 90-1 Anthony Blanche, 135 Duggan, Hubert, 137 brothers, 21 Edmund Campion, 112-13 Charles Ryder, 120-1, 140, English,112-13 142-3,207 Father Rothschild (Vile Bodies), 2 comedy, 167-8 Helena, 7, 76, 151, 158-64 death scene, 137-8 Knox, Ronald, 195-6 homosexuality, 32, 51 marriage, 207 Hooper, 8, 120, 134, 156-7 Mexican, 118 Julia F1yte, 142-3,207 Original Sin, 2, 76-8, 80, 118 Lady Marchmain, 142 redemption, 1-2, 139-40, 143 Lord Marchmain, 137-8, 140, 142 suicide, 46 Mr Ryder (father), 142 as writer, 151, 168, 213n Oxford University, 28 in Yugoslavia, 145-7, 202 Penguin edition, 213n see also religion; sainthood; parody, 206 spiritual growth romanticism vs eschatology, CBE (Commander of the Order 139-41, 154 of the British Empire), 194 Sebastian Flyte, 135, 142 Chaplin, Charlie, 153 works pre vs post, 2, 7-9, 119 Chapman & Hall, publishers, Bright Young People, 52-3, 59, 46,63,103,172,197 67-9 Brideshead Revisited, 139 British Guiana, 83, 100-1 Dickens, Charles, 12, 63 brother, see Waugh, Alec : The Mexican brothers, 21-2 Object Lesson, 117 Buckley, William F., 166 characters, see individual works burial customs, Californian, 155 charity contributions, 150-1 cannibalism, 97-9 in Yugoslavia, 145-6 Cape, Jonathan, 97 Charles Ryder (Brideshead Revisited), careers, 23, 38 120-1,140,142-3,207 see also teaching career; 'Charles Ryder'S Schooldays', development as a writer 26-7, 148 216 Index

Charles Ryder's Schooldays and Decline and Fall, 62--3, 139 Other Stories, xi Dickens, Charles, 13 Cheetham, Sir Nicholas, xii early novels, 1, 13 childhood writing, 17,19 Handful of Dust, A, 107-8 Conversion, 18 irony, 44 see also diaries later novels, 8, 167-8 children, 210-11 Loved One, The, 155 Auberon, xii, 1, 120,181, , 115 194--5,210 Common Man, 7, 8, 78, 167 Margaret, 195,208 see also modernism Maria Teresa, 115, 120, 212n communism, 78 Mary, 128 'Compassion', 147, 170 Septimus, 153 Major Gordon, 147,202 Chirnside, Joan, 22 Connolly, Cyril, 135, 154--5, 197 chivalry, 170-2 conservatism,S, 68, 78, 81,116 Christianity Roxburgh, J. F., 27 Gibbon, Edward, 159, 161-2 see also modernism Church, see Catholicism conversion, 46, 74-5, 140, 176 'Church and State in Liberated Cooper, Duff, 92--3, 185 Croatia', 146-7 Cooper, Lady Diana, 20, 92--3, 185-7 Churchill, Randolph, 66,127,144--5 courage, 11,50, 129,131 Churchill, Winston, 123, 180 cowardice, 131-2 cinematic style, 39, 47-8 Crease, Francis, 27--8 civilization Crete, 129-32, 136 Abyssinia, 84 account, 180--8 Gibbon, Edward, 90--1 Crete: The Battle and the Resistance A Handful of Dust, 104 (Antony Beevor), xi, 130 Waugh in Abyssinia, 113--14 Critical Essays (George Orwell), 152 vs barbarism, 93--5, 98-9 Croatia, see Yugoslavia vs chaos, 78, 80--2 Cruttwell, C. R. M. F., 29-30,33 class consciousness, 50, 52, cultural relativism, 57,78-9 78-9,82,126 see also aristocracy; human Daily Express, 26,99,189 behaviour; society see also journalism clubs Daily Mail, 113-14 The Hypocrites (Oxford), 32--3 D' Arcy, Father Martin, 74,96 London, 111 Edmund Campion, 109 military as, 124 daughter, see Waugh, Margaret; Col. Lushington, 125-6 children colonialism, 85 David Copperfield (Charles Colvin, Lt Col. Felix, 129-31 Dickens),6 combat experience, 125 Davie, Michael, xi Combe Florey House, 111, 189 Davis, Robert Murray, xi-xii comedy, 37, 70, 119, 122, 167-8,212n death, 5, 210-11 abandonment, 133-34 American attitudes, 158 'The Balance', 46-7 Brideshead Revisited, 139-41, 154 Brideshead Revisited, 139 Duggan, Hubert, 137 components of, 136 Loved One, The, 157-8 conflict, 93 Waugh, Arthur, 136 Index 217

Debra Lebanos (monastery), drawing, 22-3, 33, 40 88-91,162 Drawing and Design (periodical), 19 Decline and Fall, xi, 8-9, 38, 39, Driberg, Tom, 26, 74, 99 51,54,60-4,70,92,105,152 Duckworth (publisher), 63, 92 Capt. Edgar Grimes, 43, 48, Duggan, Hubert, 122, 137, 140-1 68,121,181 comic vision, 37 Paul Pennyfeather, 48, 60-2, Early Years of , The 84,94,107--8 (Alec Waugh), xi school, 26, 48-9, 52 Eaton, Dr Hubert, 152, 154 Scoop, 115-16 Edmund Campion, xi, 99, truth and justice, 62-3 108,109,112-13 'Defence of Cubism, The', 19 education, 5 de Gaulle, Gen. Charles, 127 art school, 38, 40 democracy, 78, 81 Decline and Fall, 26, 48-9, development as a writer, 48 52,60 at Oxford, 33-5, early, 23-4 authorial persona, 56-7 English literature, 14 avoidance, 38-9 mentors, 27--8 becoming 'more Catholic', public schooling, 17, 24-8 99, 151,213n rebelliousness, 25-6 early attitudes, 13-14, 17-18 university, 28-36 Edmund Campion, 112-13 Waugh, Alec, 15-16 first person narrative, 120 'Edward of Unique greatest popularity, 132-3 Achievement', 33 as historian, 35-6 Egypt, 128-9 Scoop, 115-16 Eliot, T. S., 69 transition from comedy, Embalming Techniques (Hubert 133-4 Eaton), 152 Work Suspended, 119-22 empiricism, see objectivity see also narrative techniques English language, 14,205 dialogue, 47 Enthusiasm (Ronald Knox), 196 diaries, 3, 17 eschatology, 139-41, 154, 158 Jazz Age, 52-3 Essays, Articles and Reviews of school, 26-7 Evelyn Waugh, The (ed. Donat Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, The Gallagher), xi (ed. Michael Davie), xi , see Abyssinia Dickens, Charles, 1,5-6,106--8 Eurocentricity,79 autobiographical fiction, 22 Evelyn Waugh, Writer (Robert Chapman & Hall, publishers, Murray Davis), xii 12,63 Evelyn Waugh: A Biography comedy, 13 (Christopher Sykes), xii David Copperfield, 6 Evelyn Waugh: A Biography (Selina Great Expectations, 6, 61-2, 107 Hastings), xi Disney, Walt, 153 'Evelyn Waugh and Vatican divorce, 35, 63-5, Divorce' (Donat Gallagher), xi see also annulment; Gardner, Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Evelyn; infidelity Writings, 1910-27 (ed. Robert dogs, 155, 157 Murray Davis), xi, 33 218 Index

Evelyn Waugh Newsletter with women, 20, 66-7 (journal),5 see also love affairs; 'sisters' Evelyn Waugh: The Critical From Grimes to Brideshead: The Heritage (ed. Martin Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh Stannard), xi (Robert Garnett), xii Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, Fry, Roger, 57 1903-39 (Martin Fussell, Paul, 212n Stannard), xi Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, Gallagher, Donat, xi, 80 1939-66 (Martin Gardner, Evelyn, 53-5, Stannard), xi 106,109,204,212n exile, 2, 8,81, 170 marriage to EW, 58-60, experimentation, see narrative 63-5, 102-3 techniques Labels, 71-2 extravagance, 43 see also infidelity Garnett, Robert, xii 'Fan-Fare', 7, 101,205 General Strike of 1926, 50 Fascism, 80 generational conflicts, 16-17, father, see Waugh, Arthur 30,59 fears, 52, 116 Georgian Stories (Alec Waugh), of Alec Waugh, 21 38,46 of Arthur Waugh, 11-12, 14 Gibbon, Edward, 5-6, later novels, 8 30-2,90-1,212n see also courage Christianity, 6, 159, 160-2 fictional autobiography, see irony, 61 autobiographical fiction see also objectivity Fielding, Daphne, 213n Gordon, Leon, 153 Fielding, Henry, 1 Graham, Alistair, 32, 38, film, see The Scarlet Woman 40-2,51,83 financial status, 43, 83-4, Brideshead Revisited, 141 92,109,114-15 Great Expectations (Charles after Brideshead, 139 Dickens), 6, 61-2, 107 children's trusts, 149-51 Greece, 51 Firbank, Ronald, 5,33,69,95 Greene, Graham, 178, 189 FitzHerbert, Giles, 208 Guiness, Bryan, 66 Fleming, Ann, 1-2,20,184 Guinness, Diana, 66, 120 foreign correspondents, 113-14 , see British Guiana Forest Lawn Cemetery, 152, Guy Crouchback, 81, 121, 154-5 124,180,190,206-8 see also Men at Arms, 168-78 Forster, E. M., 186 , 182-8 Fortnightly Review (periodical), 71 Unconditional Surrender, 197-204 Franco, Francisco, 80 Franks, Brian, 126 Hampstead, 11 French West Africa, 127 Handful of Dust, A, xi, 83, 99, friendships, 186 101,103-9,121,158 aristocrats, 36, 91-2 Brenda Last, 104-5 Catholics, 41-2 brothers, 21 at Oxford, 32-3, 36 development as a writer, 115-16 Index 219

infidelity, 35, 64 honour, 183, 188,202 John Beaver, 106-7, 116 Horizon (periodical), 154, 155,205 'Man Who Liked Dickens, The', human behaviour, 2, 8, 170 78,106,118 Mr McMaster/Todd, 105 humanism, 77-8, 104, 167 religion, 9, 105-{) American, 154 Tony Last, 99, 104-7 Handful of Dust, A,105, 108 happy endings, 108,206-8 humour, see comedy Hastings, Selina, xi, 14,83,196 Hypocrites, The (club), 32-3 military service, 126, 130 Hawthornden Prize, 108 infidelity, 4, 33--5, 64-5, 70, Haydon, General, 137 104-7,142,170-1 Heatherly's Art School, 38, 40 see also Brenda Last (A Handful of Heath Mount School, 23-4 Dust); Julia Flyte (Brideshead Helena, xi, 6, 37, 133, 148, Revisited); Virginia (Sword of 151, 158-ii5 Honour) Catholicism, 7, 76, 168 irony, 55-6 Lactantius, 161 Decline and Fall, 61 empiricism, 162 Gibbon, Edward, 6 literary realism, 159 Handful of Dust, A, 108 Wandering Jew, 163-4 Helena, 162 Herbert, Laura, 102, 108 suicide, 46 see also Waugh, Laura Vile Bodies, 68-9 heroes, 60-1 Ivanovic, Vane, 213n Hertford CoIIege, see Oxford University Jacobs, Barbara, 17, 19-20,57-8 Heygate, Evelyn, see Gardner, Jebb, Julian, xi Evelyn Jews Heygate, John, 106, 107 'Compassion', 147 Hinsley, Cardinal, Archbishop Mme Kanyi (Unconditional of Westminster, 155, 213n Surrender),200-3 historians, 6-7, 35-{), 69 Wandering Jew (Helena), 163-4 false, 53 journalism, 9, 33, 53, 83-4, 92, 109 Gibbon, Edward, 6, 160-2 Waugh in Abyssinia, 113--14 journalists, 53 see also Scoop, Labels traveIIers,10 journalists, 53, 86-7, 113 see also retrospection Jungman, Teresa (Baby), 75, History of Mexico, A, (Sir Nicholas 100-3 Cheetham), xii History of the Decline and Fall of , 85 the Roman Empire (Edward Kermode, Frank, xi Gibbon),30-1,160-2,212n Key to References, xi-xii HoIlywood, 152-4 knighthood, 194 Holy Places, The, 165 Knox, Ronald, 140, 193--6 homosexuality, 32-3, 51,135 see also The Life of the Right Anthony Blanche (Brideshead Reverend Ronald Knox Revisited), 135 Ludovic, 204 Labels: A Mediterranean Journal, xii, Waugh, Alec, 18-19 22,65,71-3,79-80 220 Index

Lancing College, 17, 24--8 Lowry, Malcolm, 97 later years, 210-11 Loyola University, Baltimore, 166 Laycock, Lt. Col Robert, 127-32, Luce, Clare Booth, 166 136-7,181-2,184,187-8 Lygon, Ladies Mary and Dorothy, legal concerns, 189 66-7, 141-2 Lennox, Hamish, see Graham, Alistair MacDougall, John, 197 Letters of Evelyn Waugh The, Maclean, Brigadier Fitzroy, (ed. Mark Armory), xii 145,159 Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Macmillan, Harold, 194 Diana Cooper The, (ed. Artemis 'Man Who Liked Dickens, The', Cooper), xii 104--5 Life (magazine), 128, 166-7 Handful of Dust, A, 170 Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Paul Henty, 104--5 Knox, The, 165, 194--6, 197 marriages, literary agent, 63, 101, 154 Gardner, Evelyn, 54--5, literary influences,S 58-60,63-5 familial, 12-14, 17-18 Herbert, Laura, 109-12, 114--15 Harold Acton, 33 McCarthy, Sen. Joseph, 166 see also Gibbon, Edward Meaning of Treason, The (Rebecca Little, Brown, Publishers, West),189 139, 150 'Memorandum on Layforce', Little Learning; The First 131,188 Volume of an Autobiography, A, Men at Arms, 127,136,168-78 xii,9,208-10 Guy Crouchback, 168-78 early mentors, 27-8 school analogy, 172-3 Heath Mount School, 24 see also Sword of Honour homosexuality,32-3 Messengers of Day (Anthony male friends, 31-2 Powell),107 ()xford,28-9,31-2 Mexico, 117-19 suicidal thoughts, 44--6 MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Waugh, Arthur, 14--15 153 Loom of Youth, The (Alec Waugh), military service, 122-32, 16-18,26 136-7,144--7 Lovat, Simon Fraser (Shim i), courage, 129, 131 Lt Col., 15th Baron, 92, disillusionment, 124, 129-30 136-7, 181 unpopularity, 126-7 love affairs Mitford, Nancy, 20, 36, 64, 93, 102, Graham, Alistair, 40 137,143,158,165 Plunket Greene, ()livia, 41-2 modernism, 19, 64, 134-5, 144 Teresa (Baby), Jungman, Abyssinia, 88 75, 100-2 Black Mischief, 94 see also marriages Hitler-Stalin pact, 124 Love Among the Ruins, 165, 178-9 Love Among the Ruins, 178-9 Loved One, The, xii, 133,151-8,165 marriage, 58--60 Aimee, 155, 157 military, 125-6 comedy, 167-8 Modem Man, 120, 180 Dennis Barlow, 155-8 at ()xford, 33 Mr Joyboy, 155-6 rejection, 57-8, 68 Index 221

Sword of Honour, 178-80, 201-2 Mr McMaster, 101, 105 see also Atwater (Work Suspended); Mr Todd, 101, 105 Hooper (Brideshead Revisited); Noah; or the Future of Intoxication, 38, Trimmer (Sword of Honour) 51 monarchy, 81 non-fiction, 9-10 monks,140 Notting Hill School, 52-3 Month (periodical), 147 novelists moral concerns, 71-2 as historians, 6-7, 35--6, 69 Crete, 130-1 vs painters, 3-4 Rossetti,56--7 novels Morford, Brig. St Clair, 173 'Catholic', 2 Morocco, 83, 103 early/comic, I, 13, 119 mortality, 158 later, 8 morticians, 155 moral,71-2 mother, see Raban, Catherine pre vs post Brideshead, Mr Loveday's Little Outing and 2,7-9,119 Other Sad Stories, 109 war, 81 Muggeridge, Malcolm, 194 see also individual works Murray, Basil, 93 Mussolini, Benito, 80-1,113 objectivity, 4-5, 37, 60-1, 87, 120 My Brother Evelyn and Other in diary,55 Portraits (Alec Waugh), xii Gilbert Pinfold, 3-4 see also Gibbon, Edward narrative techniques Officers and Gentlemen, 23, 180-8 cinematic, 39-40, 70 Guy Crouchback, 182-8 detachment, 48 Mrs Stitch, 93, 185--8 'experimental', 47-8,69,119-22 Oldmeadow, Ernest, 96-9, Gibbon, Edward, 6 109,212-13n improvisation, 71 Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The, 3-4, Loved One, The, 156--8 133, 156--7, 165, 189, 'modernistic', 46 190-3,213n objective third person, 55 Gilbert Pinfold, 1-3, 190-3 omniscient narrator, 120, 134 narcotic poisoning, 179 realism, 159 Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and Other short scenes, 39 Stories, The, xi Nationalism, 80-1 Original Sin, 2, 76--8, 80, 118 Nazism, 80 Orwell, George, 62, 108, 152 New Decameron, The (collection), 38 'Out of Depth', 212-13n New Statesman, The (periodical), Oxford Broom (magazine), 33, 194 34, 106 New York City, 165 Oxford University, 28-36, New Yorker, The (magazine), 156 40, 212n New York Times interview, 170 Decline and Fall, 60 Nightingale, Evelyn, see Gardner, The Hypocrites (club), 32-3 Evelyn Nineteen Eighty-Four (George parents, see Raban, Catherine; Orwell), 62, 108 Waugh, Arthur Ninety-Two Days, 83, parody, 14, 18, 155,206 100-1, 103, 105 Pearson, Hon. Clive, 117-18 222 Index

Penguin Books, 149 recurrent themes, see themes 'blurb', 11,21,38,74,108, redemption, 1-2, 139-40, 143 109,l14,123,212n references, key, xi-xii Vile Bodies, 71 religion, 9 Piers Court, Stinchcombe, Ill, early interest, 24-7, 39 114-15,121,148,189 Handful of Dust, A, 105 Plunket Greene, Olivia, 41-2, 73 see also Catholicism poetry, 17 religious mania, 105 political beliefs, 77-8, 80-1 Remote People, xii, 81-2,83, see also conservatism 84-91,92,99 popularity as novelist, 132-3, reputation, 5 139,154 retrospection, 120, 133, 148, 168 Powell, Anthony, 107 Robbery Under the l.i1w: The P.R.B., 38-9 Mexican Object Lesson, xii, prejudices, 82 10,78,117-19 see also anti-Semitism; Rodd, Peter, 36, 93, 157 anti-Americanism; Roman Catholicism, see Catholicism modernism romanticism, 120, 139-40 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 39, 54 38,51 Rossetti: His Life and Works, xii, 54, see also Rossetti: His Life 55-8,76 and Works Roxburgh, J. F., 7 Pritchett, V. 5.,209 Royal Marines, 123--27 pro-Americanism, 166-7 rudeness, 82 see also anti-Americanism protagonists, 156--7, 169,170 Sadleir, Michael, 52 see also individual works sainthood, 160, 170, 172, 175, psychological issues 198--200,202,207 depression, 210 sa tire, 6--8 narcotic poisoning, 179 Decline and Fall, 62-3 'voices', 181 'Fan-Fare', 7 see also Ordeal of Gilbert Scoop, 116 Pinfold Scarlet Woman, The, 39, 70 publicity, 59-60 school, see education public schools, 16, 26--7 schoolmastering, see teaching career publishers, 63 Scoop, 81-3,85,93-4, 104, 109, Put Out More Flags, 122, 114,115-17,158,185,186 132-6, 156 John Boot, 117 Ambrose Silk, 135 Mr Baldwin, 85, 117 Angela Lyne, 135 William Boot, 116--17 Barbara Sothill, 135 Scott-King's Modern Europe, Basil Seal, 135 124,151-2,165 Lady Seal, 135 Scott-Moncrieff, C. K., 43--4 screenwriting,100 Raban, Catherine, 11-13 secular humanism, 154 racism, 81-2 see also humanism realism, 159 Selassie, Emperor Haile, 83--4, 95, rebelliousness 25--6, 32--3, 113--14 68, 124, 145--6 sexuality, 32--3, 51, 75 Index 223

Sherborne School, 15-16 Gervase Crouchback, 175-6, 198 sibling rivalry, 15-22,25-6,124 Guy Crouchback, 81,121, 124, see also Waugh, Alec 128, 168-78, 180, 182-8, 'sisters', 20, 92-3, 102 190,197-204,206-8 see also Cooper, Lady Diana; Ivor Claire, 182-6, 189 Fleming, Ann; Jacobs, Ludovic, 204-6 Barbara; Mitford, Nancy Mr Goodall, 176-7 Sitwell, Edith, 136 narrative technique, 39 society, 59 Sir Roger of Waybroke, 170, 188 class system, 36, 50 Tommy Blackhouse, 176, commentary upon, 7-8, 52 180, 182-6 son, see Waugh, Auberon; treason, 189-90 children Trimmer, 8, 120, 128, 134, 156, 169, Spain, 151-2 180-1,188,199-200,207 Spain, Nancy, 189 Virginia, 175-7, 180, 188, Spectator (periodical), 196 199-200,203-4,207 Spiritual Aeneid, A (Ronald see also Men at Arms; Officers and Knox),194 Gentlemen; Unconditional spiritual growth, 76, 171-2, Surrender 197-200 Sykes, Christopher, xii, 80-1, see also sainthood 121,126, 173-5, 196 Stanley of Alderley, Edward Stanley, 6th Baron, 155 Tablet, The, 109,151 Stannard, Martin, xi, 3, Black Mischief, 95-9 102-3, 181, 189 tax avoidance, 149 anti-Americanism, 155 teaching career, 39, 41-3, 49, 51-2 Crete, 130 Temple at Thatch, The, 38,42-5 Edmund Campion, 109 themes Helena, 159 barbarism, 94-5 Ninety-Two Days, 100 brothers, 21-2 paternal feelings, 195 Catholicism, 39, 121, 139-41, Scoop, 116 197-8 Vile Bodies, 67-9 chivalry, 170 St Augustine, 2 civilization vs barbarism, stereotypes, 47-8, 164 81-2,94-5 Stirling, Colonel William, 137, 138 darkness vs light, 90-1 Strachey, Lytton, 55-6 honour, 183,188,202 style, see narrative techniques infidelity, 4, 33-5, 104-5, 170-1 'Such, Such Were the Joys' inheritance, 207 (George Orwell), 23 modernism,94,151-2 suicide, 43, 44-7, 212n prophecy, 151-2 'The Balance', 45-7 retrospection, 120,133,148,168 Sunday Times, 196 school,26 Sword of Honour Trilogy, xii, society, 36 93,124,159,160,209 treason, 189-90 Apthorpe, 173-5, 177,178 Thesiger, Wilfred, 91-2 Brigadier Ritchie-Hook, 128, Thirty-Four Decorative Designs by 173, 178,180,183,185-6 Francis Crease, 38 'Compassion', 170 Times, The, 83-4 224 Index

Tito, see Yugoslavia influence over EW, 25--6 Tourist in Africa, A, 165,196-7 parodies, 18 travel, 9-10, 71-3,82-3 second marriage, 22 fiction in, 72 sibling rivalry, 15-22, 124 Ninety-Two Days, 100-1 writing, 6, 16--17 Tourist in Africa, A, 165, 196--7 Waugh, Arthur, 11-15, 25, 35, 136 , career, 12-13 117,148 commonality with EW, see also military career 11-12,35 treason, 189-90 education, 12,15,35 'Tutor's Tale: A House of financial support, 40-41 Gentlefolks, The', 38, 52 resemblance to Mr Ryder, 142 role in family, 12 Unconditional Surrender, 82, Waugh, Auberon, xii, 1, 181,210 147,172,211 wounding, 194-5 Guy Crouchback, 197-204, Waugh, Laura, 111-12, 206--8 114-15,116,120 Kerstie Kilbannock, 199-200 see also Herbert, Laura Mme Kanyi, 200-3 Waugh, Margaret, 195,208 Under the Volcano (Malcolm Waugh in Abyssinia, xii, 81, 83, 86--7, Lowry),97 109,113-14 University of Texas, 161, 213n West, Rebecca, 69, 189 unpopularity in military, 126--7 When the Going Was Good, 117,148 Unquiet Grave, The (Cyril Will This Do? An Autobiography Connolly),205 (), xii Utopianism, 8 Wine in War and Peace, 165 'Winner Takes All', 21-2 Verschoyle, Derek, 42, 48 wives, see Gardner, Evelyn; Herbert, Vile Bodies, S-9, 22, 67-71,92, 121 Laura; infidelity Adam Fenwick-Symes, 69-70 Wodehouse, P. G., 172 Catholicism, 2 Woodruff, Douglas, 151 Father Rothschild, 2 woodworking, 54 Jazz Age, 52-3 Work Suspended, 66,83,103,108, narrative techniques, 39--40 119-22, 133--4, 136, 141, 156 Nina Blount, 69-70 analytic prose, 47 social observation, 47 Atwater, 8,120, 121, 134, 156--7, 181 Wales, 48 John Plant, 103, 119-21, 123, 134 war novels, see Sword of Honour Lucy Simmonds, 119-21,134 Trilogy Work Suspended and Other Stories, xii Waste Land, The (T. S. Eliot), 69 World War II, 7, 124-5 Waugh, Alec, xii, 111, 189 see also mili tary career Conversion, 18 Writers at Work, The Paris Review Early Years of Alec Waugh, Interviews, Third Series, xi The,1S-19 writing, see development as a writer education, 15-16 engagement and first marriage, York, Henry, 136 19-20 Young, W. R. B., 43, 4S-9 Georgian Stories, 38,46 Yugoslavia, 139, 152, 200-3

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