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Category Archives: Academia
Roundup: Letters and A Lecture
—BBC Radio Four Extra has announced the rebroadcast of a 1996 adaptation of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. This will be contained in two one-hour episodes. The first is broadcast on Tuesday, 24 October at 0500 repeated at 1500 … Continue reading
LRB Posts Waugh Article
The London Review of Books has posted a feature length article by Seamus Perry relating to several of Waugh’s books. This is entitled “Isn’t London Hell?” The article ostensibly reviews 5 of the 6 Waugh novels published late last year … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged London Review of Books, Penguin Books, Seamus Perry
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Campion Lecture in Oxford Announced
Campion Hall, Oxford has announced a public lecture in September that may be of interest to our readers: Professor Gerard Kilroy, Senior Fellow in English at Campion Hall, will be delivering a public lecture to celebrate the 400th anniversary of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Edmund Campion, Lectures, Oxford
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Complete Works Featured in TLS
A review of the four latest volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh series is featured on the cover of this week’s TLS. This is written by literary critic Peter Parker and entitled “A Handful of Books: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Robbery Under Law, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Oxford University Press, Peter Parker, TLS
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Rossetti Reviewed
Waugh Society member Milena Borden has kindly prepared the following review of the Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhibit currently running at the Tate Britain museum. This was mentioned in previous postings. The review is entitled “What Is Wrong with Rossetti?”: The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, PRB, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Tate Britain, The Rossettis
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Sherborne School Posts Record of Waugh’s Wartime Residence
The Sherborne School and the Old Shirburnian Society have posted a detailed and annotated account of Waugh’s six month residence at the school while stationed there in the Army: 5 October 1942-12 April 1943. This was a little over a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged Old Shirburnian Society, Sherborne School
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Academic Article on Waugh’s Book Collection
The University of Southern California has posted an illustrated copy of Naomi Milthorpe’s 2016 article “A Secret House: Evelyn Waugh’s Book Collection”. Naomi teaches at the University of Tasmania and is a longtime member of the Evelyn Waugh Society. This … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe, The Space Between, University of Southern California
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Pre-Raphaelite Exhibit at the Tate Britain (More)
An article in The Times reviews the upcoming exhibit of the Rossettis. (See previous post.) This is by Laura Freeman who cites Waugh’s earliest published work. Here’s excerpt from the beginning paragraphs: …I’m not alone in my pre-Raphaelite prejudice. Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Rossetti: His Life and Works
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