Mad World (61 page)

Decline and Fall
33, 53, 59, 62, 75, 103, 106 –9, 110, 111, 122, 186

Edward Campion
238, 244, 245, 247

‘Fiasco in the Arctic’ (essay) 233

A Handful of Dust
3, 71, 76, 120, 134, 160,

174, 175, 200, 208, 218, 219, 220, 221–4, 225, 237, 324

Incident in Azania
340

Labels
111, 125

‘A Little Hope’ 349

A Little Learning
7–10, 26, 47, 61, 63, 64, 349

Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John

‘Man, as an exile from Eden’ (essay) 260

‘The Man Who Liked Dickens’ (short story) 212–13

‘The Manners of the Younger Generation’ (article) 118

Men at Arms
272, 273

‘Mr Cruttwell’s Little Outing’ (short story) 238

‘My History’ 5

Ninety-Two Days
203, 205, 216

Noah: or the Future of Intoxication
103

Officers and Gentlemen
272, 278, 280–1

‘On Guard’ (short story) 238–40

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
7, 304, 327, 348

‘Out of Depth’ (short story) 212

‘People Who Want to Sue Me’ (article) 123

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
103

Put Out More Flags
239, 271, 273, 281,

282–4, 297, 340

Remote People
152, 172, 173, 202

Robbery Under Law
265

Rossetti
106, 119

The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama
(screenplay) 68–70, 71

Scoop
245, 252, 264, 340

Scott-King’s Modern Europe
336

Sword of Honour
273, 275, 277, 280, 281, 301

‘The Temple at Thatch’ (abandoned novel) 66–7, 79–80, 82–5

‘This Quota Stuff: Proof Positive that the British Can Make Good Films’ (short story) 188–9

Unconditional Surrender
272

‘Venetian Adventures’ (article) 193–4

Vile Bodies
114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 121, 122–4, 125, 127, 162, 182, 186

Vile Bodies
(as a play) 179–80

Waugh in Abyssinia
248

Work Suspended
269–70, 340

‘The Youngest Generation’ (editorial) 34

Waugh, Evelyn (nee Gardner) (1st wife) (1903–94) 105–6, 109–12, 113, 118–20, 123–4, 176, 215, 222, 241, 265

Waugh, Harriet May (daughter) (b.1944) 291

Waugh, Laura (nee Herbert) (2nd wife) (1916 –73) 62, 121, 128

attends Maimie’s wedding 268

becomes engaged to Evelyn 251–2

description of 259–60

Evelyn falls in love with 240–1, 242, 243, 245, 246, 258

Evelyn proposes to by letter 248

first meeting with Evelyn 215

marriage of 260–1

Waugh, Margaret (daughter) (1942–86) 285,

289–90, 346

Webb, Norman 172

Wells, H. G.,
The Time Machine
10

Wells, Mary 165

West Downs prep school (Winchester) 17–18

Westminster, 2nd Duke
see
Grosvenor, Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of Westminster ‘Benny’ or ‘Bendor’

Westminster, 5th Duke of 136

Weston, Wally 165, 255

Whitman, Walt 132

Whitworth, Geoffrey 82

Wilde, Oscar 19, 48, 65, 85n, 87, 310, 315

The Importance of Being Earnest
39

Williams, Tennessee, ’San Sebastiano de Sodoma’ 310

Wilson, Edmund 331

Wincey (spaniel) 238

Winch, Henry 254, 255

Windsor 1

Winter, Keith 151

Wodehouse, P. G. 107, 110, 112

Woodard, Mr 30–1

Woodruff, Douglas 128

Woolf, Leonard 82

Woolf, Virginia 133

Wordsworth, William 5

Yorke, Henry (aka Henry Green) 10, 42, 49, 60,

115, 118, 172, 177, 211, 237, 260, 261, 263, 268, 277, 335

Young, Dick 80, 107

Yugoslav Relief Society 335

Yugoslavia 291–2, 294–6, 317

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PAULA BYRNE
was born in Birkenhead. Her first book,
Jane Austen and the Theatre
, was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize. Her second book,
Perdita
, was a Richard and Judy book-club pick. A regular contributor to the
Times Literary Supplement
, she lives in Warwickshire with her three young children and her husband, the critic and biographer Jonathan Bate.

PRAISE

From the reviews of
Mad World
:

‘Byrne’s gift as a writer is her ability to combine scholarship with turbo-driven narrative power.
Mad World
is vibrant, absorbing, stranger than fiction’

Sunday Times

‘This is the fascinating story of a great house and a great family, brought to their knees … casts a fresh and absorbing light on both Waugh and his novels’

Daily Mail

‘
Mad World
skilfully traces the bonds not just between Waugh and the Lygons but between all the Lygons themselves … Full of fascinating anecdotes, many of which will be new, even to the most fanatical amasser of Wavian trivia. A strong and romantic book that is at once a touching story of deep friendships, an astute piece of literary criticism and an important contribution to the canon of Waugh biography’

ALEXANDER WAUGH
,
Literary Review

‘A good story is always worth retelling, especially when it involves a great writer, a famous book and a sexual scandal … [Byrne] tells the tale with great verve and considerable insight. It is with her account of life at Madresfield, and in particular with her affectionate portrait of the Lygon paterfamilias, Lord Beauchamp, that her book comes into its own’

Sunday Telegraph

‘Fascinating, especially the tender relationship Waugh had not just with Hugh, but with his three sisters’

PHILIP HOARE
,
Mail on Sunday

‘The Waugh who emerges in Byrne’s book is a more sympathetic one than you sometimes get: of course, incredibly funny; but also a loyal and kind friend and someone blessed, or cursed, with self-knowledge … Byrne makes a very plausible case for seeking the roots of Waugh’s imagination in his life’

Spectator

‘Marvellous … the real-life basis for the Arcadian world of
Brideshead Revisited
is often as extraordinary as its fictional counterpart. As well as showing his irrepressible sense of fun, Paula Byrne makes undeniable the warmth, loyalty and complexity of Waugh himself. All worked seamlessly into a non-fiction narrative that reads like a novel. A revealing study of a man who remains immortalised through the alchemy of his own writing’

Country Life

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Jane Austen and the Theatre

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

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