Writers Gallery

Evelyn Waugh gets married

Photograph of English novelist and satirist, Evelyn Waugh (1903 -1966) on his marriage to Laura Herbert, which took place at the Church of the Assumption Warwick Street, London. Waugh had a brief and unhappy marriage to Evelyn Gardner which lasted just two years (they divorced in 1930) and then converted to Catholicism. Her married Laura, a Catholic, in 1937. The couple remained together until Waugh's death and had seven children. Catholicism would become a key theme in Waugh's novels

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Nell Dunn

Nell Mary Dunn (born 1936), English playwright, screenwriter, and author pictured in London Life magazine in 1965. The daughter of Sir Philip Dunn, she was born in London and educated at a convent, which she left at the age of fourteen. Although she came from an upper-class background, in 1959 she moved to Battersea and made friends in the neighbourhood and worked for a time in a sweets factory. This world inspired much of what Dunn would later write. Dunn was married to writer Jeremy Sandford from 1957 to 1979; the couple had three sons. Her best-known works are Up the Junction and Poor Cow. Date: 1965

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Patrons of the Cafe Royal

Sketches by H. H. Harris of various well-known artists, writers and celebrities of the 1930's who were regular patrons of the Cafe Royal in Regent Street, London. Left from top: Tilly Losch (dancer and actress), A. P. Herbert (writer and wit), L. Hore-Belisha (M.P responsible for the introduction of the driving test, Belisha Beacons and conscription during World War II), Victoria Hopper (actress) and Joe Coyne (actor). Right from top: George Grossmith (actor, manager and playwright), Epstein (artist and sculptor), Augustus John (artist), Herman Finck (composer) and J. B. Priestley (author and playwright)

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