Last week we revealed how Brideshead Revisited, one of Britain’s best-loved novels and most famous TV adaptations, was inspired by the riotous real life of author Evelyn Waugh – including a ...

Arthur Evelyn (“Eve-” like “Christmas Eve”) St. John (“Sin-jin,” like in Mad Men) Waugh (“waw,” as a British person might say “war”) is a difficult man to love. And yet his ...

Barbara Cooke receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is a Research Associate on the Complete Works of Evelyn ... Waugh to Chatsworth, he was ecstatic. He would love ...