Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh Society

New Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Posted

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

A new issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies, the Society’s journal, has been posted. This is vol 54.2 (Autumn 2023). Here is the summary by the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson: I write to provide you with Evelyn Waugh Studies 54.2 which I can … Continue reading →

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Society’s Secretary Interviewed on Literary Website

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

The literary and entertainment website Book and Film Globe earlier this week interviewed the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson. The interview entitled “Waugh in Our Time” is posted today. Here’s the introduction by interviewer Michael Washburn: Nearly six decades after his … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh Studies 54.1 (Spring 2023) Posted

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

The latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been posted. Here is a summary of its contents from the Society’s secretary Jamie Collinson: It’s not often that someone finds a new angle into Waugh that yields genuine insight, … Continue reading →

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Fall 2022 Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Posted

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been posted. This is Volume 53.2 (Autumn 2022) and features a review of the recent book by David Fleming entitled Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club.  This is published … Continue reading →

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Piers Court Sold at Auction

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

According to the auctioneers and several press reports, Piers Court sold yesterday for £3,160,000. Whether and how the new owners will take possession has not yet been fully explained. According to yesterday’s  Evening Standard “the eight-bedroom house has sold online … Continue reading →

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EWS #53.1 (Spring 2022) Now Posted

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

The current Evelyn Waugh Studies 53.1 can now be read at this link.

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Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 53.1 (Spring 2022)

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

The latest issue of  the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed to the members and is now posted at this link. Here is a description of the contents as set forth in the cover letter: 1. Thomas J. … Continue reading →

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Jubilee Roundup

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–An American edition of Paula Byrne’s biography of novelist Barbara Pym is being published next week. This is entitled The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym and was issued last year in the UK by William Collins, which is also publishing … Continue reading →

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New Academic Studies (Updated)

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

–The article based on a previously mentioned lecture has now been published and posted on the internet. This is entitled “Narrating Difficult Histories: Interwar Border Crossing in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) and Christopher Isherwood’s Down There on a Visit … Continue reading →

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Thomas F. Staley R.I.P. (1935-2022)

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Jeffrey Manley

Tom Staley and Evelyn Waugh: A Reminiscence Richard Oram Not many heads of special collections are profiled in the New Yorker. The only two who come to mind are Lola Szladits, the spitfire director of the Berg Collection at the … Continue reading →

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