![]() ![]() ![]() The reasons for this are made clear in Alec’s 1917 novel The Loom of Youth, which features the homosexual freindships common in English public schools of the time.Įvelyn experienced his dispatch to Lancing as an exile, and it took him a few years to find his niche. His father had planned for him to go, like Alec, to his own alma mater of Sherbourne, but this was impossible: in 1915, Alec had left the school in disgrace. Although for years considering himself as an artist first and writer only by circumstance, Waugh began producing stories and writing his diary at a very early age.Īt thirteen Evelyn became a boarder at the High-Church Lancing College. Alec was always close to their father and Evelyn felt shut out of their intimate relationship, preferring the company of his quiet and gentle mother, always known as Kate. ![]() His father was managing director of the publishers Chapman & Hall, and his brother Alec was also to become a writer at first, in fact, Alec was considerably better known than Evelyn. ChildhoodĮvelyn Waugh was born in October 1903, the second son of Arthur and Catherine. A short biography of one of the twentieth century's most diverse and prolific writers. ![]()
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