Aloysius (Waugh)

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Aloysius is Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945).

The model for Aloysius was Archibald Ormsby-Gore, the beloved teddy bear of John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh's friend at Oxford.

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] He was depicted by a teddy bear named Delicatessen, who was owned by the actor Peter Bull.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Teddy Bear Museum, Stratford-upon-Avon: Famous Bears (May 2004). Retrieved on 2006-06-23.


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