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Author Archives: Antony F. P. Vickery
New Waugh Penguins coming in 2011
Penguin UK's 2011 publication schedule includes seventeen books by Evelyn Waugh, all hardbacks except for The Complete Short Stories, which will be in paperback. May: A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People, Rossetti, … Continue reading
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New Evelyn Waugh biography
Beautiful Books will be publishing in September a new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Duncan McLaren, Evelyn!: Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love. From the publisher's website: Duncan McLaren, the acclaimed biographer of Enid Blyton, here turns his attention to Evelyn … Continue reading
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Evelyn Waugh bust unveiled at Lancing College
"Evelyn Waugh was a pupil at Lancing during the 1930s, and wrote much about his time at the College. A portrait bust, which has been presented to the School, was unveiled by Tom Waugh, its sculptor and grandson of Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Lancing, Locations, Portraits, Waugh Family
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The cult of Brideshead among Oxbridge students
"Brideshead Regurgiated: Is the cult of Brideshead among Cantabridgians harmless fun, or does it conceal a regressive social agenda?" [Daniel Janes, The Cambridge Student]
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Waugh-related items in Bonham’s sale, March 29th
The Bonham's auction Papers & Portraits: The Roy Davids Collection Part II, to be held on March 29th, includes three lots related to Evelyn Waugh: two photographic portraits (lots 245 and 246), and an unpublished letter (lot 247). Viewing dates … Continue reading
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Lancing College Evelyn Waugh Lecture
Lancing College parents are invited to attend this year's Evelyn Waugh Lecture, to be given on March 21st by playwright, screen writer, and film director Christopher Hampton, an old boy of the school. Lancing inaugurated the annual lecture in 2008 … Continue reading
The Abingdon Arms, Beckley
A restaurant reviewer pays a happy visit to The Abingdon Arms pub in Beckley, Oxfordshire, where "Evelyn Waugh shared a caravan in the yard with his friend Alastair Graham in 1925 while writing Vile Bodies, that 'welter of sex and … Continue reading
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2011 Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest
Undergraduate essays on any aspect of the life and work of Evelyn Waugh are solicited for the Seventh Annual Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest sponsored by the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies, whose editorial board will judge the submissions and … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh’s Zodiac Settle sold
A "rare example of 19th-century, painted Gothic revival furniture that was once owned by John Betjeman and Evelyn Waugh has been sold by the Waugh family." [Art Sales, The Telegraph, photo]
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Dynastic Waughs
The Guardian has selected the Waugh family for inclusion in its "Great Dynasties of the World" series. [Ian Sansom, The Guardian]
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