![]() Hugh eventually sank into a deep alcoholism, and Beauchamp was forced to leave England after his affairs with young men came to light. ![]() The Lygons were abundantly wealthy but hardly trouble-free. Among his peers was Hugh Lygon, the son of Lord Beauchamp, patriarch of Madresfield (aka “Mad”), the lavish estate that would serve as the model for Brideshead. ![]() At Oxford he fell into the orbit of a number of students born into wealth, and his time at college seemed more dedicated to heavy drinking and sexual experimentation than any formal learning. ![]() It makes for an incomplete biography, but Byrne more than compensates with a close reading of his defining experiences as a bisexual, a Catholic and especially as a young man eager to explore the upper class. Byrne ( Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson, 2005, etc.) seeks to redeem her subject, and she makes her job easier by focusing the narrative almost entirely on Waugh’s best-known work. A perceptive study of how Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) emerged from middle-class beginnings to inhabit the tony corridors described in Brideshead Revisited (1945).īy the time of his death, Waugh had been dismissed as a pretentious snob whose best days were long behind him. ![]()
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