As Evelyn Waugh's Cotswolds mansion goes up for sale, FEMAIL reveals the extraordinary life of the Brideshead Revisited author - including his gay lovers.

“I was christened Arthur Evelyn St John: the first name after my father, the second from a whim of my mother’s,” Evelyn Waugh wrote in his autobiography, A Little Learning. “I have never ...

Portrait of Evelyn Waugh from December 1940. Evelyn Waugh was one of those characters that English literature throws up now and again, who put a special stamp on the times, like Dean Swift or Dr.

In 1937, the novelist Evelyn Waugh moved into Piers Court, a Georgian manor house near the town of Dursley, in the Cotswolds countryside. The house, a wedding gift from Waugh’s in-laws, sits on ...

In 1928, when Evelyn Waugh published his first novel, the satirical “Decline and Fall,” there was no television to speak of. (Books were like television once, culturally speaking, if you can ...

To many contemporary viewers, “Brideshead Revisited” means not just Evelyn Waugh’s original novel but also memories of the celebrated 1980s television miniseries starring Jeremy Irons.

Evelyn Waugh was one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, and his works are beloved by both literary critics and readers. But most people don’t know much Evelyn Waugh, the man. Here ...

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939-1966 By Martin Stannard Norton, 523 pages, $29.95 In his books, Evelyn Waugh was a giant of 20th Century English literature; in life, he was nasty, British and ...