by Paula Byrne
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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