The necessary annulment was not granted until 1936 in 1937 he married again, to Laura Herbert, by whom he had six children. His wife was unfaithful to him and in 1930 he obtained a divorce however, his marital position was complicated by his entry into the Roman Catholic Church in the same year. Waugh married in 1928 and began working on his next novel, Vile Bodies (1930). This was an instant success, and incidentally a revenge by caricature upon the Denbighshire school in which he had taught so unsuccessfully. A privately printed essay on the Pre-Raphaelites (1926) brought Waugh a commission for a book on Rossetti (1928), but still desperately needing money in order to marry the Hon Evelyn Gardner, he wrote Decline and Fall (1928), the first of his novels. On leaving university he spent three unhappy years schoolmastering, a period of failure crowned by an unconvincing attempt at suicide by drowning. Born in London, the son of a publisher, Waugh was sent to Lancing College, from which he won a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford.
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