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Arthur Waugh
1866–1943
A leading literary figure of late Victorian and early 20th-century London, he combined a career in publishing with biographies, criticism, poetry, and memoir. He also helped shape the literary legacy of the Waugh family as the father of novelists Alec and Evelyn Waugh.
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The Square Book of Animals
by Arthur Waugh
About the author
Arthur Waugh (1866–1943) was an English author, literary critic, and publisher born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. Educated at Sherborne School and New College, Oxford, he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry in 1888 with Gordon in Africa.
He worked as a literary journalist and adviser before becoming chairman and managing director of Chapman and Hall, the influential London publisher associated with Charles Dickens. He also served as a literary critic for The Daily Telegraph and wrote biographies of Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, along with studies of literature and publishing history.
Waugh’s books include A Hundred Years of Publishing and the autobiographical One Man’s Road. He was the father of novelists Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh, and his literary interests and publishing career formed an important backdrop to the family’s later literary reputation.