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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh Society
News Bomb
As the concern over fake news spreads, an online newspaper in Chile has joined others in recommending Waugh’s Scoop. See earlier posts. This appears in a column “VerComeryLeer [SeeEatRead]” by Miguel Ortiz in the digital journal El Definido: We are being … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged El Definido, Fake News, Noticia Bomba
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Alexander Chancellor (1940-2017): Savior of The Spectator
Journalist and editor Alexander Chancellor has died at the age of 77. He is probably best known as the man who saved the Spectator. He became editor at a low point in 1975 and remained for 9 years during which the magazine … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Alexander Chancellor, Daily Telegraph, The Spectator
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Waugh Scholar Praises Eade Biography
Profesor Donat Gallagher, one of the leading Waugh scholars and a member of the Waugh Society, has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh. The review appears in the weekend edition of The Australian. Prof Gallagher certainly liked the book and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged Donat Gallagher, Philip Eade, The Australian newspaper
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Waugh Among the Funniest
The Guardian asked writers to name the funniest book they had read. The results are in today’s issue where the choices of 14 of those polled are reprinted. Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies was selected by another comic novelist David Lodge … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Society, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged David Lodge, Guardian, Jonathan Coe
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Powell Society Visits Waugh’s Oxford
The latest issue of the Anthony Powell Society Newsletter (No. 65, Winter 2016) is largely devoted to reports of a visit to Oxford made by its members last September. The theme was “Oxford Day Out: AP and His Chums,” and inevitably … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Oxford
Tagged Anthony Powell Society Newsletter, CRMF Cruttlwell, Hertford College, Robin Bynoe
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Waugh Scholar Wins Award for New Novel
Waugh scholar, author and professor of English Philology at the University of La Rioja in Spain, Carlos Villar Flor, has won an award for a new novel, his fifth. According to the Spanish newspaper La Rioja, Villar Flor: … has just … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, La Rioja (newspaper), University of La Rioja
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Waugh Cited in Announcement of Erle Stanley Gardner Book
The New York Times in a recent books column has announced the publication of a long forgotten book by Erle Stanley Gardner. This was written in 1939 as the second in his series of books featuring the detectives Bertha Cool and Donald … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Newsletter, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Erle Stanley Gardner, New York Times
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Fr. Gene D. Phillips, S.J., R.I.P.
The Jesuits Midwest has announced the death on Monday, 29 August, of noted Waugh scholar Fr. Gene D. Phillips who was an ordained Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Jesuit order. He held a PhD in English Literature from Fordham University and … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh Society, Film, Newsletter
Tagged Gene D. Phillips, Jesuits Midwest
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Doctoral Dissertation re Intertextuality in Waugh Posted on Internet
A Ph.D. dissertation by Janelle Lynn Ortega entitled “‘I Heard the Same Thing Once Before’: Intertextuality in Selected Works of Evelyn Waugh” has been posted on the internet by the University of New Mexico. According to the abstract: …This dissertation … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Love Among The Ruins, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Vile Bodies
Tagged Intertextuality, Janelle Lynn Ortega, PhD dissertation, University of New Mexico
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Waugh Study by Ann Pasternak Slater Published
The long-awaited study of Waugh’s life and work by Ann Pasternak Slater was published earlier this month in the UK. Dr Pasternak Slater is Senior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She is well known to Waugh Society members … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Mark Amory, Spectator magazine
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