AQA (B) Literature
When the English novelist Evelyn Waugh converted to Roman Catholicism on 29 September 1930, it was not just the literary world that was surprised. His first two novels, Decline and Fall (1928) and Vile Bodies (1930), had chronicled the debaucheries and excesses of the hedonistic ‘Bright Young Things’ and it was assumed that their author was an enthusiastic member of the set he described. The story generated so much interest that Waugh was eventually prompted to explain himself in an article entitled ‘Converted to Rome: Why it Has Happened to Me’, from which it is clear that Catholicism appealed to him for both emotional and intellectual reasons.
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