Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Alec Waugh
Standard Name: Waugh, Alec
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Evelyn Waugh | Having appeared first in an anthology edited by Alec Waugh
, Georgian Stories, it was not reprinted until after EW
's death. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Waugh | His elder brother, Alec (Alexander Raban Waugh)
, became a popular novelist and achieved success long before Evelyn did. He had also overshadowed his junior as a boy by his athletic prowess. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Alec |
Friends, Associates | Theodora Benson | TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen
and Natasha Spender
, Alec Waugh
, Margaret Lane
, Malcolm Sargent
, and Joyce Grenfell
. She also met Cyril Connolly
, Olivia Manning
, Stevie Smith |
Leisure and Society | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Alec Waugh
(son of Arthur Waugh
of Chapman and Hall
) recollected Sappho Dawson Scott as a gifted salon hostess in the early twentieth-century London literary scene. Of her Sunday afternoons at home at 125... |
Literary responses | Violet Hunt | In Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women, 2005, Joseph Wiesenfarth
sees Hunt as gripped by the pattern of the adventurous woman becoming the victim of the reckless man. Wiesenfarth, Joseph. Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. 45-6 |
Literary responses | Elma Napier | Critic Elaine Campbell
reads EN
's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson
and Alec Waugh
. Campbell, Elaine. “An Expatriate at Home: Dominica’s Elma Napier”. Kunapipi, Vol. 4 , No. 1, Dangaroo Press, 1982, pp. 82-93. 86 |
Reception | Elma Napier | EN
's grandson the Dominican scholar and historian Lennox Honychurch
dedicated his book The Dominica Story, 1975, to her. Her letters to Alec Waugh
are held among Boston University
's Twentieth Century Archives... |
Textual Features | Una Troubridge | UT
wrote much of her 1914 diary in Italian. After 1915, her diaries document her relationship with Radclyffe Hall
, touching on the two women's health, families, travels, and social activities. She also writes about... |
Textual Production | Elma Napier | EN
, in a letter to writer Alec Waugh
in 1949, mentioned working on another novel to be set in Dominica and to be titled Calibishie Chronicle. Nothing more is known of this novel... |
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