Word: evelyne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evelyn Ernest Percy Tisdall has an improbable hobby for the head of a boarding school for young children: fireworks. He also goes in for fireworks in a literary way with court-scandal biographies, such as Alexandra, Edward VII's Unpredictable Queen, and Marie Fedorovna: Empress of Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. The crisply written but melancholy-minded third volume of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime?an obsolete, upper-class way of life and death that began to turn grey for Author Waugh and his hero when the Russians became Britain's allies...
...BATTLE (319 pp.)-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
...most accomplished contemporary stylist in the English language-sometime satirist, religious romantic and biographer -is also a social historian of sorts. With The End of the Battle, Evelyn Waugh completes a trilogy of novels about a segment of Britain in World War II. Neither as bouncy as Men at Arms nor as dissonant as Officers and Gentlemen, the third of the three is a blues for a bygone time...
...EVELYN SPENCER...