Category Archives: Academia

Autumn Issue of Society Journal

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Autumn 2017 issue of the society’s journal (Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 48.2) has been issued. The contents are posted below. The complete issue will be posted on the internet later this week: ARTICLES Paul Pennyfeather and the Victorian Governess: … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Jellyfish

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent travel guide includes a reference to Waugh’s fortuitous encounter with a jellyfish off the coast of Wales in 1925, where its intervention aborted Waugh’s attempted suicide. This guide is entitled Britain by the Book and is written by academic … Continue reading →

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Waugh Scholar at Oxford Literary Festival

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Barbara Cooke, lecturer at Loughborough University and Executive Editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project will appear at the upcoming Oxford Literary Festival. Her subject will be Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford which is also the title of her new … Continue reading →

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Waviana in the Book Trade

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A Baltimore dealer has on offer an original Hollywood film script of Waugh’s 1948 novel  The Loved One as written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. This is Royal Books on 25th St. This is a July 1964 draft of … Continue reading →

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Wavian Roundup

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Guardian reviews the new book by Nicholas Shakespeare, who wrote and directed the BBC’s 1980’s Arena TV documentary series known as The Waugh Trilogy. The book is entitled Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister and … Continue reading →

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D J Taylor Reviews the Complete Works

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In the current issue of Literary Review, literary critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews the first four volumes of Evelyn Waugh’s Complete Works. The review, entitled “Author of Himself”, manages to be at the same time thorough, scholarly and … Continue reading →

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Story from The Isis; Tweets from 1939

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Oxford’s literary magazine The Isis has reprinted a story it published by Evelyn Waugh. This was his first and apparently his only story published in that journal, but it was followed by several in Cherwell, according to Ann Pasternak Slater’s … Continue reading →

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New Book on Waugh’s Oxford Announced

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Bodleian Library of Oxford University has announced the publication next year of a new book to be entitled Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford. This is written by Barbara Cooke, lecturer at Loughborough University and editor at Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. … Continue reading →

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Report of Bodleian Waugh Exhibit

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A Spanish-language blogger posting on En Compostela (literally “In Compostela”, probably referring to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain) has written an illustrated report of a visit to the Evelyn Waugh exhibition (“City of Acquatint”) at the Bodleian Library in … Continue reading →

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Pre-Raphaelite Exhibit at the Royal Academy

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Milena Borden has kindly sent us the following report about an exhibit in London likely to be of interest to our readers: The Royal Academy of Arts in London is holding an exhibition ‘Works of Feeling: Pre-Raphaelite Book Illustration’ in … Continue reading →

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