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Tag Archives: Martin Stannard
Details Released of Waugh Event at Chipping Campden Festival
The Chipping Campden Literary Festival to be held in May has released more details of its event entitled “Scoop: We Need to Talk About Evelyn”. This is scheduled for Friday, 10 May at 830pm in the Chipping Campden School Hall. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Festivals, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Chipping Campden Literary Festival, Duncan McLaren, Martin Stannard
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Martin Stannard Lecture at Durham University Next Month (More)
Durham University has posted more details about Martin Stannard’s lecture next month. The topic is Waugh’s visits to the USA in the late 1940s. Here’s a description from the Durham University website: About the lecture By 1947, the year of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, Lectures, The Loved One
Tagged Durham University, Martin Stannard, Ushaw Lecture Series
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Estate of Waugh
In this week’s New Statesman, lead book reviewer Leo Robson expands his horizons to consider the question of how literary estates have affected literary history. There are four books listed as the subject of the review, but these are barely … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Leo Robson, Martin Stannard, New Statesman
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Waugh in Italy
Milena Borden has kindly sent along this report of the recent Waugh seminar in Milan: On 17 November, at the British Council in Milan, a seminar “A Waugh Fest” took place. It was sponsored by BookCity, Milan University and the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Lectures, Manuscripts, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bompiani, British Council Milan, Italian translations, Martin Stannard
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Martin Stannard to Lecture at Durham
Durham University has announced that Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh’s biographer and co-executive editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, will lecture there early next year. His topic will be “Evelyn Waugh, America and Catholicism”. This will probably touch on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Lectures
Tagged Durham University, Martin Stannard, Ushaw Lecture Series
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TLS Reviews Early CWEW Volumes
In the latest issue of TLS, Paula Byrne reviews the first five volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. These were published over several months late last year and early this. Byrne is the author, inter alia, of what … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martin Stannard, Paula Byrne, TLS
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Oxfordshire Pub to Host Waugh Event
The Abingdon Arms in Beckley, Oxfordshire, will tonight host an appearance of Prof Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh’s biographer and co-executive editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. He will discuss Waugh’s association with the pub which is where … Continue reading
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Tagged Martin Stannard, The Abingdon Arms
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Pinfold Redux: Muriel Spark Centenary
Articles are appearing in advance of the centenary of novelist Muriel Spark which will be observed next Thursday (1 February). Scottish novelist Allan Massie has written an article in the i Newspaper in which he recalls her career and his … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Conferences, Letters, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Allan Massie, iNewspaper, Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark, Patricia Waugh, The Tablet, Universoty of Glasgow
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Muriel Spark Centenary to be Observed Next Year
Next year on 1st February will be the centenary of novelist Muriel Spark’s birth. The papers are beginning to build up publicity for the event. Last week The National (Scotland) and The Times both ran articles mentioning the centenary. Both articles … Continue reading
