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Category Archives: Complete Works
General Election Roundup
Waugh is cited recently in news reports relating to the Conservative Party’s victory in last week’s general election: –In the Sunday Times, Andrew Gimson, author of the book Boris, The Making of a Prime Minister, writes of Johnson’s ability to … Continue reading
Mid-November Roundup
–The Oxford journal Cherwell reviews a current production of Hamlet at the Keble College O’Reilly Theatre. The review opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Would you not see a hundred Hamlets pottering about Broad Street?” Evelyn Waugh’s question is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Complete Works, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ambrose McEvoy, Cherwell, Daily Mail, OUPblog, The Oldie, Words on Fire
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Spring Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Published
The latest issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies (No. 50.1, Spring 2019) has been distributed. The contents are noted below. A copy may be accessed here. ARTICLES “Huxley’s Ape”: Waugh in Scandinavia (August-September 1947), by Jeffrey Manley Between his first two trips to … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newsletter, World War II
Tagged Inez Holden, Lara Feigel, Scandinavia
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Weedon Grossmith (d. 14 June 1919)
Weedon Grossmith, best known as the co-author of The Diary of a Nobody (1892) died 100 years ago today. His collaborator was his brother George Grossmith who died in 1912. They were both also successful stage performers and wrote scripts … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers
Tagged The Oldie, Weedon Grossmith
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Edmund Campion, Father Pro and Brideshead Revsited
Gerard Kilroy has written an interesting essay appearing this week in the Tablet. Prof Kilroy is the co-editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh volume of Waugh’s biography of Edmund Campion. The essay begins with a discussion of Campion’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Gerard Kilroy, The Tablet
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Scoop in Chipping Campden
Duncan McLaren has posted a report of his presentation on Waugh’s Scoop at last week’s literary festival in Chipping Campden. His talk took the lively audience through the novel with Waugh at their sides. It was supported with numerous relevant … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Festivals, Scoop
Tagged American Thinker, Chipping Campden Literary Festival 2019, Duncan McLaren, New Republic
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Waugh and Albatross
Naomi Milthorpe, the editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh volume of Black Mischief, has posted a report of her research at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas). This is on the University of Leicester staffblog and relates to … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Complete Works, Research
Tagged Albatross Books, Monty Python's Fling Circus, Naomi Milthorpe
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Waugh Featured in Conservative Journal
The American Conservative, a print magazine and online journal, has issued an article entitled: “Evelyn Waugh Predicted the Collapse of Catholic England: He saw Vatican II as an attempt by elites to foist changes on a laity that didn’t want them.” … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Second Vatican Council, The American Conservative
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