Category Archives: Helena

Evelyn Waugh and the Resolute Old Lady

In an article in Crisis magazine, Professor Regis Martin from a Roman Catholic college in Ohio is reminded of Waugh as he conducts a group of his students around Europe. This occurs as they are about to visit a church in the outskirts of Vienna … Continue reading

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Fitzroy Maclean Commemorated on St. Andrew’s Day

Fitzroy Maclean, Waugh’s commanding officer in Yugoslavia, was commemorated yesterday in an editorial on the Foreign and Colonial Office weblog. The occasion was St. Andrew’s Day. Maclean was, needless to say, Scottish. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘A man of daring … Continue reading

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Major Study of Waugh’s Post War Works to be Released This Week

Ashgate Publishing has announced the release later this week of a major study of Waugh’s later fiction. This is The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post War Fiction. The book is by Marcel DeCoste, Associate Professor of English … Continue reading

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Peter Harrington’s Evelyn Waugh catalog

The bookseller Peter Harrington’s Evelyn Waugh catalog contains many desirable volumes, none more so than Graham Greene’s inscribed copy of Helena (£25,000). Note, however, the last sentence in PH’s description of the item: First edition, first impression, large paper issue, … Continue reading

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