A NEWLY launched online Literary Trail is expected to entice fans of novelist Evelyn Waugh to stunning Woodchester Mansion near Stroud.
The Historic Houses Association’s exciting trail has just gone live and includes the Georgian mansion among over 40 properties around the UK that are connected to famous writers, books and plays.
Waugh, who lived at Piers Court in Stinchcombe at the time, published his famous satire on the press Scoop only a month before he gave a talk in Woodchester Mansion courtyard in 1938.
He spoke on The History and Associations of Woodchester Park and pointed out that since the 16th Century the Woodchester estate had never been owned by more than three successive generations of the same family.
At the time Waugh’s reputation was increasing thanks to Scoop and press archives record that a large crowd of people heard his lecture before he “good-humouredly” signed autographs.
The HHA online Literary Trail, which also includes Berkeley Castle, can be found at www.hha.org.uk/literary.
The trail initiative celebrates 2017 as Visit England’s Year of Literary Heroes.
Woodchester Mansion re-opens to the public after its winter slumber on Saturday, April 1.
See www.woodchestermansion.org.uk for further details.
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