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Author Archives: Antony F. P. Vickery
Alexander Waugh US lecture tour in March
Alexander Waugh will give several public lectures on the subject of “Evelyn Waugh and the Question of Inheritance” during his visit to the United States this March. The lectures will be at the Evelyn Waugh Conference at Loyola Notre Dame … Continue reading
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Evelyn Waugh’s recipe for mulled claret
The following item was published in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Winter 1972). Waugh’s Mulled Claret Francis O. Mattson “It was shortly before midnight in early March; I had been entertaining the college intellectuals to mulled claret; … Continue reading
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Evelyn Waugh Conference & Exhibit in Baltimore
Loyola Notre Dame Library in Baltimore is hosting two events this year to commemorate Evelyn Waugh’s visits to the United States in the late 1940s. Evelyn Waugh Exhibit (February 27th to April 7th): “An Englishman in Catholic America,” a display of … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Bibliophilia, Catholicism, Chattels & Movables, Events, First Editions, Letters
Tagged baltimore, loyola, notre dame
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A knighthood, on the other hand, may have gone down nicely
Evelyn Waugh appears in the recently released list of people who have declined honours (as he would have spelt it). He refused the offer of a CBE in 1959. Allan Massie's blog post in The Telegraph provides some details and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1959, Allan Massie, CBE, honors, honours, Telegraph
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Evelyn Waugh Forums now live
A threaded discussion capability has been added to this website. Commonly known as an Internet forum or message board, this feature permits people to hold conversations in the form of posted messages about a subject of common interest. The Evelyn … Continue reading
Paul Johnson: Novelists at Arms
Paul Johnson in Standpoint magazine surveys novels and novelists of the Second World War, including James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Anthony Powell, and Evelyn Waugh: It is a mistake, in my view, to hold a popularity contest between A … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Powell, James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Second World War, Standpoint, WWII
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Evelyn Waugh His Book
An essay by Naomi Milthorpe in the most recent edition of Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand discusses the provenance and dating of Evelyn Waugh's bookplates.
Never seen a copy of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine?
Unz.org provides free access to its online archive of periodicals, books, videos and films, including full runs of Horizon (1940-1949), Encounter (1953-1991), and many others.
LibraryThing completes online catalog of Evelyn Waugh’s library
The book-centered social website LibraryThing has announced that its project to make available online a catalog of Evelyn Waugh's library has been completed. LibraryThing states that 2,752 books are in the finished catalog, but this number is considerably less than … Continue reading
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Guardian interview with Alec Waugh’s son Peter
The Guardian interview (Nov. 25, 2011) with Alec Waugh's son, Peter, paints a less than flattering picture of Evelyn Waugh as an uncle: When he was nine, Peter was introduced to Evelyn. It is a vivid memory. His uncle sat … Continue reading
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