EVELYN WAUGH
Chronology
1894
Arthur Waugh publishes Reticence in Literature
in The Yellow Book.
1896
Arthur Waugh becomes assistant manager of Keegan
Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
1898
Alec Waugh born.
1901
Arthur Waugh becomes general manager of Chapman and
Hall.
1903
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (EW) born October 28.
1907
Waugh family moves to "Underhill" in North End, near
Hampstead.
1910
EW attends Heath Mount preparatory school and bullies
Cecil Beaton.
1916
EW attends Lancing College Develops diary habit.
1921
EW attends Hertford College, at Oxford University,
and is arguably its most famous failure.
1922
EW meets Harold Acton.
1924
The Scarlet Woman. EW leaves Oxford without
completing his degree.
1926
PRB
1927
Life of Rossetti. EW marries Evelyn Gardner.
1928
Decline and Fall.
1929
EW divorces as his wife ran away with a mutual acquaintance.
1930
Vile Bodies, Labels. EW converts to Roman
Catholicism Due to church doctrine he finds himself still married, and
will seek an annulment.
1931
African travels. Remote People.
1932
EW meets Diana Cooper (summer) and Winston Churchill
(fall).
December 2: EW leaves by ship for British Guyana.
1933
Ninety-Two Days
1934
A Handful of Dust For a brief overview and
analysis.
1935
As a reporter, EW covers the Italo-Etiopian War.
1937
EW marries Laura Herbert.
1939
November 17: Auberon Alexander Waugh born. December:
EW embarks on the first phase of his wartime service, as a Royal Marine.
1955
EW retires to Somerset, which he makes his home until
his death in 1966. In August, the poet Edith Sitwell is received into the
Catholic Church, and asks EW to be her sponsor.
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