Aloysius is Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Jacket of the first UK edition of Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited, the Sacred and Profane Memories of Capt. ...
The model for Aloysius was Archibald Ormsby-Gore, the beloved teddy bear of John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh's friend at Oxford. The original Teddy bear (circa 1903). ... Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Whos Who as a poet and hack. He was born to a middle class family in Edwardian London. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
Aloysius, and in particular his representation in the acclaimed television adaptation of the novel (1981), is credited with having triggered the late-twentieth-century teddy bear renaissance.[1]
References
^ The Teddy Bear Museum, Stratford-upon-Avon: Famous Bears (May 2004). Retrieved on 2006-06-23.
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