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Author Archives: Antony F. P. Vickery
Evelyn Waugh Society now on Twitter
The Evelyn Waugh Society is now on Twitter at @evelynwaughsoc. The Society will use Twitter to announce updates to the News section of this website. News updates are also available through the site's RSS feed.
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Castle Howard celebrates 30th anniversary of TV Brideshead
On September 25th, Castle Howard, the magnificent baroque mansion in Yorkshire used as a location for the 1981 Granada Television series Brideshead Revisited, is marking the 30th anniversary of the production with a special, day-long celebration, Brideshead Revisited 30th Anniversary … Continue reading
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Third Evelyn Waugh Conference concludes
The Society's third Evelyn Waugh Conference, held at Downside Abbey and School in Somerset, England, concluded on August 19th. The conference schedule included papers by eminent Waugh researchers Donat Gallagher, Robert Murray Davis, and Ann Pasternak Slater, and presentations by … Continue reading
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Jonathan Keates on Great Letter Writers
The writer Jonathan Keates, interviewed by The Browser for their splendid FiveBooks series, selects Evelyn Waugh as one of his "great letter writers." The thing about Evelyn Waugh is that you must take everything with a pinch of salt. Because … Continue reading
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A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes
St. Augustine's Press is publishing in October a new edition of A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes, a collection of letters between Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan concerning the liturgical changes introduced … Continue reading
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Paul Johnson on the life and works of the young Waugh
In The Spectator, Paul Johnson examines the life and works of the young Evelyn Waugh: Evelyn Waugh died, aged 62, in 1966, and his reputation has risen steadily ever since. His status as the finest English prose-writer of the 20th … Continue reading
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Brideshead Revisited adapted for the stage
A dramatic adaptation by Christina Drollas of Brideshead Revisited opens at the Corpus Christi College Auditorium in Oxford on Tuesday, June 14th. Tickets. Sarah Gashi provides a preview in The Oxford Student.
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Essays solicited on controversial theology in fiction
Professor Marc DiPaolo of Okalahoma City University is compiling a book of essays on controversial theology in fiction. He would like to include an essay on Brideshead Revisited, as well as essays on Graham Greene, C. S. Lewis, G. B. … Continue reading
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Osbert Sitwell’s inscribed copy of Decline and Fall for sale
England's Colchester Bookshop is offering for sale a copy of Decline and Fall inscribed to Osbert Sitwell. From the listing at AbeBooks.com: An exceptional association and presentation copy from the very beginning of Evelyn Waugh's career as an author, dated … Continue reading
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New book of essays on Evelyn Waugh
A new book of essays on Evelyn Waugh edited by three members of the Evelyn Waugh Society has been published by Rowman & Littlefield. From the publisher's website: A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection … Continue reading
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