Waugh wrote of his time a Hertford, ' I do no work here and never go to Chapel '.

Historian John C. Waugh wrote of Pickett, " An excellent brigade commander, he never proved he could handle a division.

According to his nephew Auberon, Alec Waugh " wrote many books, each worse than the last.

Anthony Burgess wrote that Graham Greene's ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.

In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his magnum opus ; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene saying " I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled.

Waugh wrote to his literary agent A. D. Peters, " I hope the last conversation with Cordelia gives the theological clue.

Henry Green, a fellow novelist, wrote to Waugh, " The end was not for me.

" And Edmund Wilson, who had praised Waugh as the hope of the English novel, wrote " The last scenes are extravagantly absurd, with an absurdity that would be worthy of Waugh at his best if it were not — painful to say — meant quite seriously.

The Reverend Benjamin Waugh ( 20 February 1839 – 11 March 1908 ) was a Victorian social reformer and campaigner who founded the UK charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC ) in the late 19th century, and also wrote various hymns.

Waugh himself wrote, " The characters in my novels often wrongly identified with Harold Acton were to a great extent drawn from Brian Howard ".

As a young man, Waugh wrote five novels that were quite well received, but gave up fiction, for fear of unfavourable comparisons with his father.

Neither columnist agreed to put their name to it, but Waugh wrote a foreword endorsing the book and hitting out at the anti-smoking lobby: " Let us hope this book strikes a blow against the new control terrorists ," he said.

Waugh wrote five novels before giving up writing fiction, partly in protest at the inadequate money authors received from public lending rights at libraries and partly because he knew he would always be compared unfavourably to his father.

* Auberon Waugh — wrote The Daily Telegraphs Way of the World column after Wharton's semi-retirement.

Rochdale-born poet Edwin Waugh was influenced by Collier's work, and wrote an extensive account of Milnrow during the mid-19th century in a tribute to Collier.

Waugh wrote up his travels more factually in Waugh in Abyssinia ( 1936 ), which complements Scoop.

In his memoir At War with Waugh, Deedes wrote that ; " Waugh like most good novelists drew on more than one person for each of his characters.

As an undergraduate, she wrote for Isis, the university's literary magazine, to which she contributed interviews with the columnist Auberon Waugh and the actor Dudley Moore.

Between 1988 and 1990 he wrote the Daily Telegraph ` s The Way of the World column ( a satirical column originated by Michael Wharton ), and in 1990 swapped places with Auberon Waugh to become a weekly columnist on The Sunday Telegraph, where he has remained to this day.

But Waugh wrote, to Lord Baldwin: " There is an aesthetic bugger who sometimes turns up in my novels under various names -- that was 2 / 3 Brian and 1 / 3 Harold Acton.

Evelyn Waugh wrote: " I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes.

* Decline and Fall, a novel by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928 makes thinly disguised references to Dartmoor Prison.

The article, written as a school essay, was an attack on The Loom of Youth, by Alec Waugh, a recently published novel which caused a furore for its frank account of homosexual passions between British schoolboys in a public school.

Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Céline, Waugh and Nabokov.

* Scoop ( novel ), a 1938 satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh set in the world of foreign correspondence

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

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 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, which Byrne describes in the preface as a " partial life ," identifies other real-life bases for events and characters in Waugh's novel, though Byrne argues carefully against simple one-to-one correspondences, suggesting instead that Waugh combined people, places and events into composite inventions, subtle transmutations of life into fiction.

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.

Some have put forward the unlikely theory that he was the principal model for ' The Man who loved Dickens ' in the novel A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.

Evelyn Waugh had a character order four brandy alexanders in his novel Brideshead Revisited.

The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy ( 1948 ) is a short satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.

Waugh complained that Winter " sees Brideshead purely as a love story " and that no one at MGM was able to grasp the " theological implication " of the novel.

MGM abandoned its pursuit of the novel after Waugh explained to Gordon " what Brideshead was about " and he seemed to " lose heart ", citing aspects highlighted by the censor.

In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother Mark, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie made a serious impact, especially the former.

Muralitharan completed another twelve overs without further no-balls and, after bowling Mark Waugh, finished the day with figures of 18 – 3 – 58 – 1.

Maugham was one of the most significant travel writers of the inter-war years, and can be compared with contemporaries such as Evelyn Waugh and Freya Stark.

As Patricia Waugh writes, ' Psychoanalytic literary criticism does not constitute a unified field .... However, all variants endorse, at least to a certain degree, the idea that literature ... is fundamentally entwined with the psyche '.

The word " odd " indicates that we must take every other letter of the rest of the clue, starting with the first: Stuff of Mr Waugh is set.

Along with the Waugh twins, Steve and Mark, Taylor played in under-19 youth internationals for Australia against Sri Lanka in 1982 – 83.

Opening with fellow debutant Mark Waugh, he scored 12 and 56 not out against Tasmania.

He then made 59 in a century stand with Waugh as Australia defeated co-hosts India in Mumbai.

with Waugh, to allow Australia to take the momentum and take victory by six wickets.

In 1922, the novelist Evelyn Waugh came up to Hertford, famously feuding with his history tutor C. R. M. F. Cruttwell ( who was to become the fourth Principal of the refounded College, 1930 – 1939 ), and later naming a number of odious characters after him.

Another notable feud Trevor-Roper carried on in the 1950s-60s was with the novelist and Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh, who saw Trevor-Roper as a severe critic of the Catholic Church, and was often vocal in expressing his criticism of him.

Waugh is the younger fraternal twin brother of Steve Waugh, with whom he played for most of his career and also under his captaincy.

Waugh eventually finished the season with 1460 runs and 75 wickets, breaking the club runscoring record by more than 200 runs.

In the next match against Tasmania, Waugh opened the bowling with Mike Whitney, due to injuries to other bowlers, taking 2 / 31 in the first innings.

Batting at No. 7, Waugh was involved in a century stand with Greg Dyer to help avoid the follow on with 41.

Building up an impressive record at first-class level, Waugh spent two seasons with English county Essex as the team's successor to Allan Border as overseas professional.

Border had to leave before the end of the season because of the Australian tour of Pakistan and had recommended Waugh, who arrived with high expectations.

Waugh accepted, subject to him not being selected for the 1989 Ashes tour of England with the national side.

Waugh ended his first international series with 131 runs at 21. 83.

Waugh returned to form with 110 against Middlesex, before scoring an unbeaten century against Australia in a tour match.

Waugh finished his season with 165 against Leicester.

Waugh ended the Sheffield Shield as the top-scorer, with 967 runs at 80. 85, prompting the ABC to select him as its Player of the Year.

Playing against England in the Fourth Test at the Adelaide Oval, Waugh came to the crease in the first innings on the first day with Australia in trouble at 4 / 104.