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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh Society
Fall 2022 Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Posted
The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been posted. This is Volume 53.2 (Autumn 2022) and features a review of the recent book by David Fleming entitled Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club.  This is published … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies
Tagged David Fleming
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Piers Court Sold at Auction
According to the auctioneers and several press reports, Piers Court sold yesterday for ÂŁ3,160,000. Whether and how the new owners will take possession has not yet been fully explained. According to yesterday’s Evening Standard “the eight-bedroom house has sold online … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Piers Court, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Guardian
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EWS #53.1 (Spring 2022) Now Posted
The current Evelyn Waugh Studies 53.1 can now be read at this link.
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Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 53.1 (Spring 2022)
The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed to the members and is now posted at this link. Here is a description of the contents as set forth in the cover letter: 1. Thomas J. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Vile Bodies, World War II
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New Academic Studies (Updated)
–The article based on a previously mentioned lecture has now been published and posted on the internet. This is entitled “Narrating Difficult Histories: Interwar Border Crossing in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) and Christopher Isherwood’s Down There on a Visit … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Fiction, Remote People, Vile Bodies
Tagged English Studies, Ghent University
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Thomas F. Staley R.I.P. (1935-2022)
Tom Staley and Evelyn Waugh: A Reminiscence Richard Oram Not many heads of special collections are profiled in the New Yorker. The only two who come to mind are Lola Szladits, the spitfire director of the Berg Collection at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Ransom Center, Richard Oram, Tom Staley
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“Waugh on Russia Revisited” by Milena Borden
Waugh Society member Milena Borden has kindly sent the following short essay on Waugh’s attitude toward Soviet Russia as reflected in his novel Sword of Honour. She started it some time ago but has found it has now become relevant … Continue reading
Waugh in Translation
Adelphi Edizioni, an Italian publishing company, has announced the publication of an Italian translation of Waugh’s 1952 book The Holy Places. This was previously issued as a separate book by Ian Fleming’s Queen Ann Press in identical UK and US … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Labels, The Holy Places, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Adelphi Edizioni, Icelandic translation, Italian translations, Ugla
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MLK Birthday Roundup
–In the Daily Telegraph, combining elements of the travel and gardening columns, Matt Collins describes a recent trip to the Atlantic island of Madeira: Upholding at least six of writer Paul Theroux’s 10 golden rules of travel, I went alone … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anne Messel, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Penguin Modern Classics, The Spectator, The Times, TLS, Washington Post
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