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Category Archives: Complete Works
Presidents Day Roundup
–An article in the current issue of Prospect Magazine wonders when contemporary writers will learn how to successfully incorporate text messages into fiction narratives. By way of background, the article by Jemma Slingo explains how Evelyn Waugh pioneered the technique … Continue reading
Details Released of Waugh Event at Chipping Campden Festival
The Chipping Campden Literary Festival to be held in May has released more details of its event entitled “Scoop: We Need to Talk About Evelyn”. This is scheduled for Friday, 10 May at 830pm in the Chipping Campden School Hall. … Continue reading
Roundup: The Walrus and the Waugh Scholars
–Duncan McLaren has added a new article to his Evelyn Waugh website relating to three of the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Precocious Waughs (v.30), Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934 (v.26), and A Little Learning (v.19). He … Continue reading
Estate of Waugh
In this week’s New Statesman, lead book reviewer Leo Robson expands his horizons to consider the question of how literary estates have affected literary history. There are four books listed as the subject of the review, but these are barely … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Leo Robson, Martin Stannard, New Statesman
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Waugh Lecture at Lancing
The Lancing College website has posted a report of last month’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. This year’s speaker was OL Sir Tim Rice (1958-62) who recalled how events at Lancing had helped shape his career as a lyricist: Tim admitted that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Lectures, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Sir Tim Rice, William Boyd
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Waugh in Italy
Milena Borden has kindly sent along this report of the recent Waugh seminar in Milan: On 17 November, at the British Council in Milan, a seminar “A Waugh Fest” took place. It was sponsored by BookCity, Milan University and the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Lectures, Manuscripts, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bompiani, British Council Milan, Italian translations, Martin Stannard
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Evelyn Waugh to Feature in Great Lives Series
BBC Radio 4 has announced a new episode in its “Great Lives” series that will feature a panel discussion of Evelyn Waugh. Here is the announcement: Comedian Russell Kane nominates the novelist Evelyn Waugh, with help from literary critic Ann … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Radio Programs
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, BBC Radio 4, Great Lives, Russell Kane
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Waugh Event in Milan
The British Council in Milan has announced a presentation relating to Evelyn Waugh later this week. Here are the details: On occasion of the 2018 edition of Bookcity, the British Council Milan, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Conferences, Events
Tagged British Council Milan
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Kelmscott Manor, Rossetti and Waugh
The following article was sent by Waugh Society member Milena Borden: Kelmscott Manor built around 1600 was the Cotswolds home of William Morris – writer, designer and craftsman – from 1871 until his death in 1896. It was also the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Complete Works, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Kelmscott Manor
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