Yearly Archives: 2025

Roundup: From Clubs to Travels

–The Daily Telegraph reports that one of Waugh’s London clubs has voted to continue to exclude women members: A PRIVATE gentlemen’s club in Mayfair has voted against admitting women for the first time, The Telegraph has learnt. The Savile Club, … Continue reading

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Roundup: Theatrical Torture, Biographical Therapy and Lineage of Comic Novel

–The Italian newspaper La Stampa for 25 January 2025 has an article by the late Gaia Servadio which is based on an interview with Graham Greene that seems to have taken place about 1978 (publication date of The Human Factor … Continue reading

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MLK Day Roundup

–The US-based Jesuit journal America has an article in its latest issue describing the differences and similarities of conversions to Roman Catholicism by writers and intellectuals in the US and UK. It opens with the UK example of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading

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New Book About Early Waugh Love Interest

A new book has appeared featuring one of Waugh’s love interests of the 1930s. This is entitled The Many Lives and Loves of Hazel Lavery and is described on its cover as a Novel. Here’s an excerpt from a review … Continue reading

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Roundup: Television and Weblogs

–Blogger Andrew Kern has posted on Substack an article praising Waugh’s war novel Men at Arms. Here are the opening paragraphs: Evelyn Waugh wrote better than any dead or living Briton from the 20th century. He tells stories that incorporate … Continue reading

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Roundup: Renewed Interest in Rosemary Tonks

–The London Review of Books reviews the reprints of three of the later novels by poet-novelist Rosemary Tonks. She wrote during the period 1963-1980.  After a rather difficult life, she stopped writing in 1980 to become a fundamentalist Christian, dying … Continue reading

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David Lodge (1935-2025) R.I.P.

The Society regrets to announce that its Honorary President, David Lodge, died earlier this week on 1 January 2025 at the age of 89. He was a few weeks away from his 90th birthday. There are several obituaries in today’s … Continue reading

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