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Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital's traditional members-only clubs have endured and evolved. Now a ...
If you love corsets, castles, and complicated characters, BritBox is basically your period drama paradise. The streaming platform is packed with British series that bring the past to life with ...
As Brideshead Revisited turns 80, how Evelyn Waugh took inspiration from a tragic aristocrat in creating his own waywardly-eccentric Sebastian Flyte in his iconic novel of upper class foibles ...
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My own acquaintance with Mr. Waugh is slight. The last time I saw him was at a wedding. I am no expert on wedding attire, but his seemed unusual. A tall black top hat, I thought funereal in ...
Aloysius was the teddy bear of Lord Sebastian Flyte in the TV period drama Brideshead Revisited, which was inspired by Evelyn Waugh's novel of the same name. It sold at the auction for £26,000.
Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh was born in London on December 30 1963, the second of four children of Auberon Waugh, known to family and friends as “Bron”, and his wife Lady Teresa, daughter ...
Portrait of Evelyn Waugh from December 1940 velyn 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.
The story of his remarkable life and fall from grace, as well as the links between the house, his children and the novelist Evelyn Waugh, are central to Jane Mulvagh’s acclaimed history Madresfield: ...
Emerald Fennell's new film Saltburn is the latest work to zone in on the strangeness of British aristocrats and their estates. Why are we so compelled by them, asks Rosalind Jana.