Category Archives: Books about Evelyn Waugh

Two Recent Waugh Books in Literary Review

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A review of two recent books about Evelyn Waugh has become available on the internet, at least in part. The books are In the Picture by Donat Gallagher and Carlos Vilar Flor, both professors of English Literature, and Evelyn! A Rhapsody … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Politics

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Athough Evelyn Waugh professed no interest in party politics and asserted that he never voted, he has been cited several times recently in political articles. In a Weekly Standard article earlier this month on the unfortunate politics of the British Royal family … Continue reading →

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Major Study of Waugh’s Post War Works to be Released This Week

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Ashgate Publishing has announced the release later this week of a major study of Waugh’s later fiction. This is The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post War Fiction. The book is by Marcel DeCoste, Associate Professor of English … Continue reading →

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More Praise for New Waugh Study

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The reviewer for the Daily Telegraph (Miranda Seymour) has joined those for the Daily Mail and Independent in praising Duncan McLaren’s new biographical approach to Evelyn Waugh’s early life. See earlier post. According to Seymour: McLaren … offers us two scoops. Exposing … Continue reading →

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New Approach to Waugh Appears Later This Week

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A new biography of Evelyn Waugh will appear in the U.K. later this week. This is Evelyn! Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love, Harbour Books, Chelmsford, Essex, 14.00 pounds, 294 pp. It is written by Duncan McLaren who previously wrote a … Continue reading →

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Publication of Book on Waugh and Merton Announced

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A book by Canadian author and educator Mary Frances Coady on the friendship of Evelyn Waugh and U.S. theologian Thomas Merton has been announced. Entitled Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain, it will … Continue reading →

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Major Study of Waugh’s War Trilogy Published

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

Two well-known Waugh scholars have collaborated on a detailed study of Waugh’s War Trilogy. Their long-awaited work, In the Picture: The Facts Behind the Fiction in Evelyn Waugh’s “Sword of Honor,” was recently published by Editions Rodopi B.V. (Amsterdam and New … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Press Nemesis Recalled in The Independent

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

The Independent on Sunday newspaper (April 20, 2014) has run an article recalling the career of a media figure from the 1950s who locked horns with Evelyn Waugh. Christopher Fowler’s article appears in the paper’s regular column Invisible Ink devoted to forgotten … Continue reading →

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Malcolm Muggeridge on Waugh and Stopp’s biography

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

In 1959 Malcolm Muggeridge reviewed Frederick J. Stopp’s biography of Evelyn Waugh for the New Republic and described his own slight acquaintance with its subject: The last time I saw him was at a wedding. I am no expert on … Continue reading →

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Brits in Hollywood

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

The long-awaited publication of Lisa Colletta’s British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965: Travelers, Exiles, and Expats took place last month in both the US and the UK. Professor Colletta presented a preliminary version of portions of the book relating to Waugh … Continue reading →

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