Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh Society

Brideshead Festival May Not Happen

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

The Yorkshire Post has published a story by David Behrens in which it reports that the festival scheduled last year to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Brideshead Revisited’s publication may never happen. This is largely based on an interview with … Continue reading →

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Travel Book Launch

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project last week conducted a virtual book launch for the next two books to be published in the series: Ninety-Two Days and A Tourist in Africa. The meeting was conducted by Barbara Cooke, a … Continue reading →

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Profile in Hatred: Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers has written a biographical profile of travel writer Robert Byron, with particular reference to the mutual hate – love – hate relationship between Byron and Evelyn Waugh. This appears in the online journal The … Continue reading →

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Pinfold’s Voices

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Yuexi Liu has written an essay on Waugh’s 1957 novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. This is included in the latest issue of Modernist Cultures (No. 15/2, 2020) published by the Edinburgh University Press. Here is the abstract: Waugh’s last … Continue reading →

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Helena Book Launch

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

A virtual book launch was convened yesterday for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh edition of his novel Helena. The executive editors of CWEW both participated, with Barbara Cooke introducing and presiding over the proceedings and Martin Stannard providing an … Continue reading →

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A Biography and A Portrait

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Waugh scholar and EW Society member Ann Pasternak Slater has written a new book relating to a writer Waugh admired but knew only slightly. This is a biography of T S Eliot’s wife Vivien. The book is reviewed by Brian … Continue reading →

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Virtual Book Launch for Helena

Posted on October 17, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Press and Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project have announced a virtual book launch for the publication of Helena. The book (volume 11 of the Complete Works) will be published next month in the UK, with North … Continue reading →

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“92 Days” Complete Works Edition Announced

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Press has announced the UK publication date for its definitive edition of Waugh’s 1934 travel book Ninety-Two Days. This will appear in the UK on 25 February 2021, the same UK publication date as the previously-announced A … Continue reading →

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90th Anniversary of Waugh’s First Visit to Ethiopia: 10 October 1930

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The following post is by Waugh Society member Milena Borden and is a preliminary version of a longer article that is being prepared for publication in a future issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies: In July, it was reported that the … Continue reading →

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Tourist in Africa OUP Volume Announced

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Press has announced the publication of another new volume in its Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. This is A Tourist in Africa (1960) and will be volume 25 in the series. Here’s the description from the OUP’s … Continue reading →

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