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Category Archives: Academia
Incomplete Works
The Oxford University Press commissioned a review of three early volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh from its sister publication Essays in Criticism. A review of these volumes (Vile Bodies, Precocious Waughs, and Rossetti) has been ably written by … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Deposit Libraries, Essays in Criticism, Lisa Mullen, Oxford University Press
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Lord Ottercove Redux
The pages of the TLS have been the scene for the reappearance of a character named Lord Ottercove who first surfaced (or not) in the novels of Evelyn Waugh and William Gerhardie. This discussion started with Paula Byrne’s review of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Censorship, D.J.Taylor, Lord Beaverbrook, TLS, William Boyd, William Gerhardie
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Waugh: A Review and A Profile
In the latest issue of the Australian literary journal Quadrant, Mark McGinness reviews the first volume of Waugh’s collected journalism in v. 26 (Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934) of OUP’s Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh edited by Prof Donat Gallagher. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Anglotopia, Donat Gallagher, Mark McGinness, Quadrant
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Upcoming Lectures: Lancing, Leicester and Langport
Several lectures have been announced that may be of interest to our readers in the UK: —Lancing College has announced this year’s Evelyn Waugh lecturer: The Evelyn Waugh Lecture was started in 2008 as a means of thanking all members … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Lancing, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Lancing College, Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, Nigel Wood, Sir Tim Rice, Somerset County Gazette
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Waugh Welcomes Students
Several student-oriented papers have quoted Evelyn Waugh in their greetings to students arriving or returning to university studies: —The Times Higher Education Supplement invited advisory Twitter messages to be posted in an effort to make first year students feel welcome. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Twitter
Tagged Cherwell, George Orwell, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, Times Higher Education Supplement
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Mid-Month Roundup: Schoolroom Confusion
Our latest roundup starts with references to Waugh’s school days and ends with the 1970s Penguin reprints: —The Independent newspaper has published a list of what it considers the Top 10 examples of celebrities overlapping at the same school. Private … Continue reading
TLS Reviews Early CWEW Volumes
In the latest issue of TLS, Paula Byrne reviews the first five volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. These were published over several months late last year and early this. Byrne is the author, inter alia, of what … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martin Stannard, Paula Byrne, TLS
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Waugh’s University Challenge
This week’s University Challenge quiz on the BBC featured Clare College, Cambridge against Hertford College, Oxford. In his introductory remarks. presenter Jeremy Paxman mentioned among Hertford’s best known alumni John Donne, Jonathan Swift and Evelyn Waugh. He went on to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Hertford College, University Challenge
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Waugh in Japan
ProQuest has published another link on the internet to an academic study relating to Evelyn Waugh. This is an article by the late John Howard Wilson entitled “The Origins of Japanese Interest in Evelyn Waugh 1948-1963” and was published in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Evelyn Waugh Studies
Tagged A D Peters Collection, Japanese translations, John Howard Wilson, Marcel Decoste, Naomi Milthorpe, Papers on Language and Literature, Yoshiharu Usui
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English Writers in Mexico
A link to an article on English writers in Mexico has been posted on the internet by ProQuest. This was written by Simon Carnell and appeared in 2015 over several issues of the University of Manchester’s journal PN Review. It … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Research, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Mexico, PN Review, Simon Carnell
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