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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh Topic of Lecture and Preview
This month will see Waugh’s biographer Martin Stannard lecture in Oxford and the BBC’s film of Decline and Fall previewed in Cardiff: Campion Hall in Oxford will host a lecture by Prof Martin Stannard entitled “No Abiding City: Evelyn Waugh and America”. Stannard, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Television, The Loved One, Wales
Tagged Anthony Burgess Society, BBC, Campion Hall, Martin Stannard
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Evelyn Waugh and Selina Hastings x 2
Forum Auctions has posted an early letter from Evelyn Waugh (sometime in 1929) relating to the writing of Vile Bodies. This is addressed to Lord Hastings and thanks him for the loan of a two-volume work about his ancestor Selina, Countess … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Forum Auctions, Lord Hastings, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings
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Telegraph Makes Literary Tour of Stately Homes
In today’s Property section of the Daily Telegraph, there is a discussion of a tour of stately homes that have a literary connection. This is by Eleanor Doughty, known to this parish as a Waugh fan. She starts with a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Blackpool Gazete, Daily Telegraph, Eleanor Doughty, Henry de Vere Clifton, Lytham Hall, Madresfield Court, Malvern Gazette, Stonyhurst
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Jonkers Issue Waugh Catalogue
Jonkers Books of Henley-on-Thames have issued a 70-page illustrated catalogue exclusively devoted to books and writings by Evelyn Waugh and his friends. Here’s a link to the online edition which is limited to books or other writings by Waugh or to which he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Bill Deakin, Fitzroy Maclean, Jonkers Books, Yugoslavia
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El Pais Chronicles Brideshead TV Generation
A feature article in the Spanish language newspaper El Pais chronicles the generation of party goers inspired by the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited: In his first scene, Sebastian appears vomiting through an open window. Margaret Thatcher had been living in Downing … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Television
Tagged Dafydd Jones, El Pais
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TLS Reviews Waugh Books
The latest TLS has a review of the two recently published books about Evelyn Waugh by Ann Pasternak Slater and Philip Eade. The review, entitled “Horrors of Waugh”, is available to read on the internet. It is written by journalist … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Philip Eade, TLS, Violet Hudson
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Guardian Includes The Loved One in Top 10 Hollywood Novels
The Guardian in this week’s “Top 10” books column considers books about Hollywood. Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One is among those selected by Tim Walker who has himself just finished his own contribution to the genre (Smoke Over Malibu). … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Greg Sheridan, Guardian, The Australian, Tim Weeks
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Paula Byrne to Appear at Highclere and Other Waugh News
Biographer Paula Byrne (author of Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009)) will appear in a program entitled “Literature and Landscapes” to be held at Highclere Castle near Newbury, Berkshire, in May. The venue is better known as the … Continue reading
Favorite Second Novels
The Royal Society of Literature is conducting a poll of UK residents to determine their favorite second novel. The competition is explained on the RSL’s website: Second novels are a notorious challenge for writers. Whether their first novel was a … Continue reading
Wrong Waugh
The interactive internet site Ranker has started a new rating survey in which Evelyn Waugh is included. A previous posting has him under consideration for the rating of Best Roman Catholic Author, in which he is currently listed as #3. See previous post … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Lancing, Television
Tagged Arthur Waugh, Ranker, Sherborne School
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