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Category Archives: Complete Works
Latest “EWS” Posted: States, Issues and Complete Works
The most recent issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies is now posted. This is No. 52.3 (Winter 2021) and opens with an article by Hartley Moorhouse entitled “Bibliographical Confusion Surrounding the First UK Editions of Scoop”. This uses … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Bibliophilia, Complete Works, Ninety-Two Days, Scoop
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Campion Hall Lecture on YouTube
Prof. Gerard Kilroy’s 9 September 2021 lecture on “Edmund Campion and Waugh’s Household of the Faith”at Campion Hall, Oxford is available on YouTube at this link. The illustrated lecture was presented at Campion Hall, Oxford before a live audience and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion
Tagged YouTube
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Oxford Campion Event (More)
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh has issued an invitation to recently announced book launch at Campion Hall in Oxford. See earlier post dated 26 July. This clarifies that the book to be launched is the OUP Complete Works edition … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Events, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall, Gerard Kilroy
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Roundup: Vagaries and More
–Writing in the TLS, critic and novelist DJ Taylor discusses one genre he discovered he enjoyed during his lockdown reading. He identifies this as the writer’s vagary: What is the writer’s vagary? It is the solitary book in a well-known … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Helena, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Radio Spada, TLS, Town & Country
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Complete Works Project Seek Help
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh Project at the University of Leicester seek help to identify copyright holders of certain letters received by Evelyn Waugh from various writers for permissions to publish such letters in future volumes of their Personal … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Letters
Tagged Copyright, University of Leicester
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Roundup: Public Schools, Pronunciation and Epigraphs
–The Daily Telegraph has an essay by Rupert Christiansen reviewing the English obsession with Public Schools. This begins with a consideration of several novels, films and stage plays that center on the miserable lives suffered by both students and teachers … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, New Statesman, Rev Sydney Smith, The Literary Hub
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Waugh’s Travel Writing
Biographer Jeffrey Meyers has written another in his series of articles about British travel writers in The Article, an online magazine. Waugh was prominently mentioned in two previous articles–those dealing with Robert Byron and Wilfred Thesiger. These are described in … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged British Guiana, Jeffrey Meyers, The Article
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MLK Weekend Roundup
—The Tablet has posted an excerpt from Waugh’s novel Helena in recognition of both the Christmas season and the recent publication of that novel as the latest addition (vol. 11) to the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the introduction … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Copyright Law, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Oldie, The Tablet, William Carey University
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“Helena” Memoir in The Tablet
The current issue of The Tablet has what is essentially a memoir by Sara Haslam of her experiences in editing Waugh’s novel Helena. The book was published earlier this month in the UK and will be published in early January … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Harry Ransom Center, Oxford University Press, Sara Haslam, The Tablet
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