Category Archives: Complete Works

Unsung Waughs

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

A posting by Ralph Berry on the weblog of the “paleoconservative” journal Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture cites one of Waugh’s least read novels: I was lately in Exeter, hoping to see something of the Islamic Centre at the … Continue reading →

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Spring Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Available

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spring 2018 issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies is now available. This is issue 49.1. The contents and abstracts of articles are set forth below. A complete copy of this issue is available here: ARTICLES Milena Borden, … Continue reading →

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Alan Bell (1942-2018)

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph announces the death of Alan Scott Bell. He was former librarian (1993-2002) 0f the London Library where he oversaw major building projects and computerization. According to an earlier notice on the London Library’s website, his death occurred … Continue reading →

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Haphazard Dust-bins

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Spanish novelist Imma Monsó has written an article inspired by the publication in Spanish of US novelist James Salter’s The Art of Fiction. Salter’s book is based on a series of 2014 lectures he gave at the University of Virginia … Continue reading →

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First Volume of Complete Essays, Articles and Reviews Now for Sale in USA

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Volume 26 of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934 is now for sale in the USA. This is a few weeks ahead of the previously announced USA release date of 1 May 2018. The book was … Continue reading →

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A Diary, a Legacy, and a First Edition

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The long-running “Londoner’s Diary” column of the Evening Standard has been relaunched as “The Londoner” and has a new author, Charlotte Edwardes, who writes her introductory article with a nod to Evelyn Waugh and several of his friends: On my … Continue reading →

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CWEW Journalism Volume Published

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Volume 26 of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh was published in the UK earlier this month and is available for sale. This is the fifth volume of the Complete Works to be published and first of four volumes in … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Oxford Reviewed in Times; “The Scarlet Woman” Online

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times is the first paper to review the new book Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford to be published by the Bodleian Library later this month. The book is by Dr Barbara Cooke who is Co-Executive Editor of OUP’s Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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Waugh at 60: BBC 1964 Monitor Interview Available Online

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

A link has become available to the 1964 TV broadcast of the BBC’s Monitor interview of Evelyn Waugh by novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. The link is to the BBC Archives via Facebook (don’t ask me how that works or how … Continue reading →

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Oxford Mail Previews New Book on Waugh

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford Mail in an article by Andrew Ffrench offers an advance look at a new book about Evelyn Waugh to be issued next month. This is Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford by Barbara Cooke who is lecturer at Loughborough University and … Continue reading →

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