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* In Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, the narrator describes the Oxford of his youth as being " submerged now and obliterated, irrecoverable as Lyonnesse, so quickly have the waters come flooding in ..."
He featured in the 1974 11-part radio adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour.
Professor Silenus is a Character from Evelyn Waugh's first novel, Decline and Fall.
In Evelyn Waugh's Helena, the Wandering Jew appears in a dream to the protagonist and shows her where to look for the Cross, the goal of her quest.
* In Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder's father lives in Bayswater.
* Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited has Julia Flyte playing Halma with Nanny.
It is familiar to television and movie audiences as the fictional " Brideshead ", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema.
In addition to its most famous appearance in film as Brideshead in both the 1981 television serial and 2008 film adaptations of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, Castle Howard has been used as a backdrop for a number of other cinematic and television settings.
* Hunt's painting The Awakening Conscience is explicitly referenced in Evelyn Waugh's novel:
The book was one of the inspirations for filmmaker Tony Richardson's 1965 film The Loved One, which was based on Evelyn Waugh's short satirical 1948 novel of the same name, tellingly subtitled " An Anglo-American Tragedy ".
( P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster ; Tibby, in E. M. Forster's Howards End, is also a Magdalen undergraduate, as is Bridey in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
* Brasenose is also mentioned in Chapter 5 of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, where the " pub-crawlies hearties from BNC " were noted as frequenting the Turf tavern.
The college is the setting for parts of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, as well as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The building is infamous as the site of the incident novelised in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in which Sebastian Flyte, returning from a Bullingdon Club bender vomits through a window into a ground-floor room.
" Dempsey, who eventually moved from guitar to bassist for ' the group ', said that another name they toyed with was the Brat's Club-a reference to Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust.
He also wrote introductions to new publications of such diverse works as Great Expectations, Walter Scott's Old Mortality, T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy and Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Evelyn Waugh's ( 1903 – 66 ) career also continued after World War II, and in " 1961 he completed his most considerable work, a trilogy about the war entitled Sword of Honour.
Forest Lawn's of intensely landscaped grounds and thematic sculptures were the inspiration for the biting commentary of Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel The Loved One and Jessica Mitford's acerbic The American Way of Death.
* Evelyn Waugh's witty essay, Half in love with easeful death, imagines archaeologists in 1000 years coming upon Forest Lawn.
The character of Mr Samgrass in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is said to be modelled on Bowra.
He is depicted in Evelyn Waugh's novel " Officers and Gentlemen ", part of the Sword of Honour trilogy, reciting a translation of Callimachus's poetry in public.
The couple became leaders of the London artistic and social scene and were dedicatees of Evelyn Waugh's second novel Vile Bodies.
He renewed acquaintance with Evelyn Waugh, whom he had known at Oxford and was a frequent guest for Sunday supper at Waugh's parents ' house.
In Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, the family mansion Marchmain House, which is supposedly located in a cul-de-sac off St James's, near Piccadilly, is demolished and replaced with luxury flats ; although an incident in fiction, this is, in fact, representative of the period.
The Yellow Book is also mentioned in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags:

Evelyn and 1952
* 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
A self-proclaimed " very difficult man ," Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns ( 1932 – 33 ; annulled ); Margaret Allen ( 1934 – 37 ; divorced ); actress Lana Turner ( 1940 ; divorced ); Betty Kern ( 1942 – 43 ; divorced ), the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern ; actress Ava Gardner ( 1945 – 46 ; divorced ); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor ( 1946 – 48 ; annulled ); actress Doris Dowling ( 1952 – 56 ; divorced ); and actress Evelyn Keyes ( 1957 – 85 ; divorced ).
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, KG, GCMG, KCVO ( 29 September 1903 – 10 March 1973 ) was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944 and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959.
* Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale ( 1903 – 1973 ), his son, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959
* Lord Francis George Montagu Douglas Scott ( 1 November 1879 – 26 July 1952 ), married 11 February 1915 Lady Eileen Nina Evelyn Sibell Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound ( daughter of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto and Lady Mary Caroline Grey ) and had issue
* Evelyn Mansfield King, with J. C. Trewin, Printer to The House, London, 1952.
In 1952, he married Elisabeth Evelyn Walshe ( 1910 – 1991 ), the former wife of author Nigel Balchin.
* Evelyn Waugh-Sword of Honor ( 1952 )
They include the original St Mark's timber church ( now Sylvania Public School Library ); a timber residence in Evelyn Street associated with the Holt Estate ; ' Glenn Robin ', built by William Glenn Wade on land he acquired in 1949 and completed in 1954 ; and ' Green Gables ' built by Sidney and Clarisse Bayer between 1946 and 1952 on Kangaroo Point.
His son Roland Leckie was the member for the state seat of Evelyn from 1950 to 1952 and later a crown prosecutor and a judge of the County Court.

Evelyn and novel
* Decline and Fall, a novel by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928 makes thinly disguised references to Dartmoor Prison.
* Scoop ( novel ), a 1938 satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh set in the world of foreign correspondence
It is an autobiography of his early years presented in the form of a novel, with false names being given to the central characters, including Sassoon himself, who appears as " George Sherston ," and his mother (" Aunt Evelyn ").
The protagonist wonders if he is like Tithonus in Book 4, Chapter 1, of Alec Waugh ( brother of Evelyn Waugh )' s novel, The Loom of Youth.
Algernon Stitch lived in a " superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor " in London in the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh ( 1938 ).
* Helena ( 1950 novel ), by Evelyn Waugh
* In Monica Dickens's 1946 novel The Happy Prisoner, Evelyn plays halma with her cousin Oliver North.
The writer Evelyn Waugh exclaimed that her beauty " ran through the room like a peal of bells ", and he dedicated the novel Vile Bodies, a satire of the Roaring Twenties, to the couple.
* A play on the title of the popular Evelyn Waugh novel, Brideshead Revisited.
An orgone accumulator plays an important role in the semi-autobiographical Evelyn Waugh novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
The 2008 novel After Omdurman by John Ferry is partly set during the 1898 re-conquest of the Sudan, with the book's lead character, Evelyn Winters, playing a peripheral role in the Battle of Omdurman.
The former offices of The Daily Telegraph, drawn upon as a source by Evelyn Waugh in his comic novel Scoop, are now the London headquarters of the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.
* The book is mentioned in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited.
During the 1920s Carroll had the lead in a successful Broadway play, The Green Bay Tree ( based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bromfield ), and in 1941 starred with Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn in Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street ( Gas Light ), which ran for three years at the Golden Theatre on 45th Street in New York City.
Dudley's career in film music has spanned 20 years and her film scores include: American History X ( 1998 ) an American drama directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton ; A Man Apart ( 2003 ) starring Vin Diesel ; Black Book ( 2006 ) a World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven ; Bright Young Things ( 2003 ) British drama written and directed by Stephen Fry based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh ; Buster ( 1988 ) a British comedy drama starring musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock ; The Crying Game ( 1992 ) an Irish / British drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan ; The Full Monty ( 1997 ) a Peter Cattaneo directed comedy about six unemployed steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act.

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