Pilgrim’s Progress
Michael Davie, 4 December 1980
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
edited by Mark Amory.
Weidenfeld, 664 pp., £14.95, September 1980,0 297 77657 6 Show More
edited by Mark Amory.
Weidenfeld, 664 pp., £14.95, September 1980,
“... fully explained by clichés about adolescent revolt. The first girl with whom Evelyn fell in love, Olivia Plunket Greene, was a Catholic, and it was a Waugh family theory that it was she who first turned him against his parents – as it was certainly she who first gave Alec the unkind nickname of ‘Baldhead’. The Plunket Greenes had links with a very ... ”