Osbert sitwell autobiography of a face
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RENISHAW REVEALED
April 25, 2014. I've come to realise that Evelyn Waugh's experiences at Renishaw Hall - he was there for days on end with Alastair, She-Evelyn and Laura - fed into his vision of BridesheadRevisited. But I'm going to take my time demonstrating as much. Indeed, imagine you've been invited to a country house for the weekend. In such circumstances a certain amount of patience is no doubt required.
Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire is owned by the Sitwell family. Evelyn Waugh knew Osbert Sitwell from 1928, when Evelyn gave his influential new friend a signed copy of his sparkling debut novel, Decline and Fall. In 1942, when the relationship was long-established, Osbert asked Evelyn if he could come up with a personal reminiscence of his father, Sir George Sitwell. Evelyn obliged by handing him a carefully crafted letter.
The letter is dated 20 June, 1942 and was written at Renishaw Hall (which is close to where Waugh's Commando unit was based at the time). The letter appears as an appendix to Laughter in the Next Room, the fourth volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography. It describes the only occasion that Evelyn met George Sitwell, in the summer of 1928.
Actually, Waugh says 'thirteen or fourteen years ago this summer', but Osbert, in his book,
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The autobiography cue SIR OSBERT SITWELL
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