Brideshead Revisited (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Waugh
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Social issues, England or English people, Faith, Drinking or drunkenness, Catholics or Catholic Church, Vacations, Satire
- Locales: Africa, London, England, Venice, Italy, Oxford, England
Characters Discussed
Charles Ryder, a young man who in his days at Oxford meets Sebastian Marchmain and is gradually introduced to the Marchmain family of Brideshead. He becomes an architectural painter and marries the sister of another Oxford friend, but his ties to the Marchmain family persist, and later he falls in love with Sebastian’s sister Julia, who is also married. They plan to divorce their spouses and marry each other, and for a while they live together; but Julia’s Catholic faith claims her at last, and she gives up Charles.
Lady Marchmain, the stanchly...
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