Its full title is Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder; EW
dedicated it to his wife
. He wrote it, he explained in a preface to a radically revised...
Family and Intimate relationships
Evelyn Waugh
EW
married as his second wife another aristocrat, Laura (Laura Laetitia Gwendolen Evelyn) Herbert
, a cousin of his first wife.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.