Evelyn Waugh also speculated that Beerbohm had made a mariage blanc but added: "Beerbohm remarked of Ruskin that it was surprising he should marry, without knowing he was impotent." Waugh also observed, "the question is of little importance in an artist of Beerbohm's quality.". Waugh does not give a source for this remark of Beerbohm's, though the two had met and corresponded occasionally.
Evelyn Waugh also speculated that Beerbohm had made a mariage blanc but added: "Beerbohm remarke.d of Ruskin that it was surprising he should marry, without knowing he was impotent" Waugh also observed, "the question is of little importance in an artist of Beerbohm's quality.". Waugh does not give a source for this remark of Beerbohm's, though the two had met and corresponded occasionally.