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The building was even selected for the Historic Houses Association s new literary trail, which included more than 40 homes across the country linked to famous writers. Madresfield near Malvern is the home of the Lygon family, whose eldest sons took the title of Earl Beauchamp from 1815 until 1979. Waugh met Hugh Lygon at Oxford in 1922 and they became close friends. It is thought that Waugh first came to know and love Madresfield Court, when one of Hugh s four sisters, Dorothy, invited him to stay for Christmas in 1931. Waugh also wrote Black Mischief, his third book, published in 1932, while staying at Madresfield as a guest. It is believed an old nursery was converted into a writing room for him.
The cancel mob can attack Larkin the man, but they should leave his poetry alone
Hull City Council think the poet’s statue is of ‘concern’ because of racism in his letters. But those remarks don’t represent his work
9 March 2021 • 2:17pm
Poet Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, was honoured with a statue in Hull in 2010
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All that is surprising about the Left coming for Philip Larkin is that it took them so long. His statue in Hull, at whose university Larkin was librarian for 30 years, is on a list of monuments under consideration for removal in order to appease the Black Lives Matter movement.