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“Poor Evelyn. Died of snobbery.”

Let Cecil Beaton’s terse eulogy for Evelyn Waugh be also the eulogy (he hasn’t died yet) for Andrew M-W.

UD loves Beaton’s clever statement, and was sorry to see, years after using variants of it in many contexts, that she’d been misquoting it. He actually wrote So Evelyn Waugh is in his coffin. Died of snobbery.

Margaret Soltan, February 24, 2026 7:35AM
Posted in: great writing

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