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Category Archives: Complete Works
Waugh Podcasts
The quarterly literary magazine Slightly Foxed has announced that its next podcast will be devoted to Evelyn Waugh. This will be posted on their website, probably on 15 April. Details such as topics, participants, time, etc. do not seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Aubrey Beardsley, BBC, Daily Mail, Slightly Foxed
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Upcoming Waugh Events
Two Waugh-related events have been announced for late next month. Unfortunately, they occur on the same day but do not necessarily conflict: –The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh Project in Leicester has announced a reading from a new play based … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Events, Festivals, Oxford, Theater
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Loughborough, Sophie Swithinbank
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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
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic World Report, General Election, margarine, MENAFN.com, The Economist, The Sunday Times
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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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