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Category Archives: Helena
Helena Reviewed in Italian
The Italian religious news website Radio Spada has published a review of Waugh’s novel Helena. An Italian translation of the novel was published as Elena: la madre dell’imperatore in 2002, but this review is not related to that publication, aside from … Continue reading
Waugh and the 1945 General Election
Waugh returned to England via Italy from his assignment in Yugoslavia on 15 March 1945. He devoted the last few weeks in Italy to stirring up opposition to the new Communist regime of Marshall Tito. He spent most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Diaries, Helena, World War II
Tagged General Election 1945, Randolph Churchill
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Waugh’s V-E Day
Milena Borden has forwarded the following article to commemorate the 75th anniversary of V-E Day as experienced by Evelyn Waugh: A few days before the Victory in Europe (V-E Day), which marked the formal end of Hitler’s war, Waugh was … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Helena, Interviews, Waugh in Abyssinia, World War II
Tagged Benito Mussolini, V-E Day
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Penguin Promotes Waugh
Penguin Books, Waugh’s UK paperback publisher since the 1930s, has posted an article by literary journalist John Self about Waugh’s works, most of which are in print in Penguin editions (including some volumes of the attractive 2011 hardback series). The … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Labels, Twitter, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged John Self, Penguin Books
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New Volume of CWEW Announced: Helena, v. 11
The Oxford University Press has posted the next volume of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. This is his 1950 novel Helena which will appear as volume 11 in November. The OUP descripton is posted on their website. Here’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Items for Sale
Tagged Oxford University Press, Sara Haslam
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Dog Days Roundup
–Musician Johnny Greenwood, composer and lead guitarist of the veteran rockband Radiohead, was recently interviewed by the Times newspaper. In answer to their request to identify his favorite writer he again named Evelyn Waugh and declared Sword of Honour as … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, London, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Financial Times, Men's Clubs, Shelf-Awareness, The Spectator, The Times
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End-of-the-Month Roundup
–Today’s New York Times has an article about people who choose to have portraits of their houses painted rather than photographed: While landscape portraiture became a common endeavor for artists centuries ago, homes were rarely the principal subjects of the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Portraits, Scoop, World War II
Tagged Aleteia.org, John Verney, Michael Parkinson, New Criterion, New York Times, Times newspaper
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New Betjeman Collection
The Sunday Times has previewed a new collection of previously unpublished poems by Waugh’s friend John Betjeman, some of which have fairly explicit homosexual themes. The collection is entitled Harvest Bells and will be published later this month: A newly discovered … Continue reading
Posted in Helena, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged John Betjeman
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Easter Roundup
–The Australian religious journal Catholic Weekly has posted an essay entitled “The Easter yearning”. This is by Karl Schmude and begins with a discussion of the many ways Easter is misunderstood today. Among the examples is this from Evelyn Waugh: … Continue reading
