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Category Archives: Academia
Unsung Waughs
A posting by Ralph Berry on the weblog of the “paleoconservative” journal Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture cites one of Waugh’s least read novels: I was lately in Exeter, hoping to see something of the Islamic Centre at the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Black Mischief, Complete Works, Film, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Harry Ransom Center, Sara Haslam, Tab Hunter, The Guardian
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Waugh and Religious Satire
Prof Terry Lindvall of Virginia Wesleyan University has written a book entitled God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert. In his broad survey, he gives some time to a brief consideration of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Love Among The Ruins, Ronald Knox
Tagged Religious Satire, Terry Lindvall
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Exploding Scotland
In a post on the website Catholicism.org, Dr Robert Hickson offers another in his series of annotated Evelyn Waugh passages. In this case he posts a copy of Waugh’s 1942 letter to his wife about the demolition of Lord Glasgow’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Letters, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged catholicism.org, Dr. Robert Hickson, Scotland
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Waugh and International Law
Dr Fernando Gomez Herrero from the University of Birmingham delivered a paper at a London conference on Languages Memory based on Evelyn Waugh’s description of his attendance at an academic conference in Scott King’s Modern Europe. The paper was entitled ‘About … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Dr Fernando Gomez Herrero, International Law, University of Birmingham
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Waugh and Proust: A Handful de Chez Quoi ?
A brief letter in this week’s TLS raises several interesting points about Waugh’s understanding of Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. This is from Dorothy McMillan at the University of Glasgow: Sir, – As your correspondents have shown … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dorothy MacMillan, Marcel Proust, Tatler Lady Kinvara Balfour, The Hill, TLS
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Roundup: Brideshead Matters
In an article posted on National Catholic Register, Joseph Pearce considers whether education still matters and concludes that it should but doesn’t always manage. In order to matter, education must teach the truth as revealed in the wisdom of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Edith Sitwell, Evening Standard, Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register, Rupert Everett, The Tablet
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Aston Clinton Profiled on Country House Website
The estate of Aston Clinton, associated with Evelyn Waugh in the 1920s, is profiled on the website of House and Heritage.org, maintained by David Poole. The estate became well-known thanks to its ownership by a member of the Rothschild family … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Chattels & Movables, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society
Tagged Aston Clinton, House and Heritage.org, Piers Court
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Alan Bell (1942-2018)
Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph announces the death of Alan Scott Bell. He was former librarian (1993-2002) 0f the London Library where he oversaw major building projects and computerization. According to an earlier notice on the London Library’s website, his death occurred … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Scott Bell, Daily Telegraph, London Library
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Naomi Milthorpe on Waugh
Naomi Milthorpe, author of Evelyn Waugh’s Satire (now available as an ebook as well as hardback), will appear later this week at the University of Tasmania’s Humanities Showcase. Her topics will be archives, literary objects and Evelyn Waugh. Also on the program … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Lectures
Tagged Humanities Showcase, Naomi Milthorpe, University of Tasmania
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