Waugh | An Act of Homage & Reparation (1961)

(Waugh | An Act of Homage and Reparation Sunday Times 16/7/1961) “.... There was a cocky young reviewer a year or two ago who publicly debased himself by stating that Mr Wodehouse was out of date. In that young man’s sense, he has never been out of date. He inhabits a world as timeless as that of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Alice in Wonderland; a world inhabited by strange transmogrifications. ….” (Gallagher D, The Essays Articles & Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, Methuen, 1983, p567) Aunts Aren’t Gentleman is published in 1975