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Category Archives: Biographies
Peter Fleming’s War Career (More)
In the current New Criterion, D J Taylor reviews the recent biography of Peter Fleming, brother of Ian and friend of Evelyn Waugh. See previous post. Before addressing the contents of this biography, which covers his military career, Taylor discusses … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged D.J.Taylor, New Criterion, Peter Fleming
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Evelyn Waugh, Walter Gropius and Prof Otto Silenus
Fiona MacCarthy, biographer and art historian, has written a biography of architect Walter Gropius. At least two reviewers have noted his contribution to the character of Prof Otto Silenus in Waugh’s debut novel Decline and Fall. Novelist Philip Hensher, writing … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Biographies, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Bauhaus, Fiona MacCarthy, Guardian, John Carey, Philip Hensher, Spectator, The Sunday Times, Walter Gropius
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BBC Airs Muriel Spark Film
BBC2 last week broadcast a one hour documentary on the life and works of novelist Muriel Spark: The Many Primes of Muriel Spark. This was originally transmitted in January on BBC Scotland to mark Spark’s centenary. The program was presented … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Documentaries, Interviews, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged BBC, Kristy Wark, Muriel Spark
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Long-Missing Waugh Letter for Sale
Peter Harrington Booksellers are offering the original of a 24 January 1958 letter from Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford. The letter was published in full in the Christopher Sykes biography (Penguin, p. 525) but had gone missing when Charlotte Mosley … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Charlotte Mosley, Christopher Sykes, Nancy Mitford, Peter Harrington Booksellers
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Oxfordshire Pub to Host Waugh Event
The Abingdon Arms in Beckley, Oxfordshire, will tonight host an appearance of Prof Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh’s biographer and co-executive editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. He will discuss Waugh’s association with the pub which is where … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Oxford
Tagged Martin Stannard, The Abingdon Arms
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Autumn Issue of Society Journal
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
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged David Bittner, Donat Gallagher, Ellen O'Brien, Naomi Milthorpe, Robert Laycock, Robert Murray Davis
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Campion Hall Takes Part in Complete Works Edition
The October issue of Campion News, the newsletter of Campion Hall, Oxford, has announced its participation in the OUP’s Complete Works of Waugh project: The recognised authority on Edmund Campion, Professor Gerard Kilroy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hall, is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall Oxford, Gerard Kilroy
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Review of Auberon Waugh Autobiography Posted
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture has posted on the internet a 1998 review of Auberon Waugh’s autobiography Will This Do? The magazine is a publication of the Rockford Institute, a think tank promoting the views of the “paleoconservative,” as … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
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Waugh in Reviews
The Prufrock column in this week’s Weekly Standard magazine contains this reference to the new book Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons, with a link to a review of the book: The Catholic priest Ronald Knox made a deep … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Ben Judah, Financial Times, Greg Morrison, London Review of Books, Rosemary Hill, Sreven Runciman, University Bookman, Weekly Standard
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