They're the subject of new BritBox series 'Outrageous' but they were even more so in reality; this is everything you need to ...

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

Summer happens slowly, then all at once: longer nights, a drink on the porch followed by one more, the trickle then flood of ...

By Frances Wilson Muriel Spark’s memoir, Curriculum Vitae, published in the spring of 1992, concludes in 1957 with the ...

Much later she selected a biographer, Martin Stannard, whose biography of Evelyn Waugh she had found good, but the relationship wasn't happy and she disliked his book.

The life story of another renowned British writer, Evelyn Waugh, was similarly troubled. Waugh also continually suffered from initial money problems as well as a thorough dislike of the modern world.

A few hours after he attended Easter Sunday Mass on April 10, 1966, the great English novelist Evelyn Waugh died at his home in Somerset, England. A requiem Mass was celebrated 11 days later in ...

Like the author’s previous popular biographies, which include “Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead” (2009) and “The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym” (2021), “Hardy ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” ...

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) ... (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific ...