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... And Waugh begat Waugh ...(Book Review)
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, by Alexander Waugh; Headline, 2004, $55.
AFTER ALEC WAUGH assembled the letters he had received from his father, Arthur Waugh, he attached a note to the bundle saying: I feel that these are some of the most remarkable letters ever written from a father to a son." As always in such matters, Alec was bang right. The letters are "most remarkable", but not in the way one might at first expect. Of course they are appropriately wise, principled and eloquent. But they are surprising and fascinating because the relationship they reveal between father and son is perhaps unique in its intensity. They are the most surprising ...
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...OCTOBER'S CENTENARY of the birth of Evelyn Waugh, perhaps the greatest English...generations of the Waugh family by Evelyn's grandson Alexander Waugh...and his relationship with his sons Alec and Evelyn," says Alexander, a former opera...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Jones, Arthur October 24, 2003 700+ words
...of being anti-American. Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh did not...Arthur, and his older brother, Alec, were writers. His father was...and nepotism worked early in Evelyn's favor as a novelist. Alec, author of more than 40 books...
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- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Waugh, Evelyn January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Chapman & Hall. Evelyn's older brother Alec was also literary by nature...become a famous writer. As Evelyn Waugh declares in A Little...actor, read to him and Alec daily for many years...and at Oxford, where Evelyn was prominent in the literary...
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...of Martin Stannard's story in Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, a literary...Waugh's reputation (see his Evelyn Waugh: The Critical Heritage...publishing house of Chapman and Hall. Evelyn's older brother Alec even enjoyed an early literary...
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- Magazine article from: Commonweal Davis, Robert Murray November 19, 2004 700+ words
...not only from Greene but from his friend Evelyn Waugh. Waugh was more prescient, writing to his brother Alec in 1965 that he hoped to provide for his...Writing among the Ruins: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh." The exhibit is drawn from more...
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- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Murphy, Francis April 1, 2008 700+ words
...his sentimental preference, resented by the young Evelyn, for elder son Alec. Evelyn would later take revenge by lampooning his father...familial harmony, however: Several letters from Evelyn to son Auberon reveal a loving father who encouraged...
