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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh Event at Gloucestershire Festival
The Chipping Campden Literary Festival has issued preliminary information about its 2019 program. This is scheduled for 7-11 May 2019 and will include an event on 10 May entitled “Scoop: We Need to Talk About Waugh”. This will be presented … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Scoop
Tagged Chipping Campden Literary Festival 2019
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Tatler Reopens U/Non-U Debate
A recent feature article in Tatler magazine reopens the ever popular discussion of English social class markers usually referred to as the U/Non-U debate originally sparked by an article by Nancy Mitford. This latest discussion is by Matthew Bell. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television Programs
Tagged Nancy Mitford, NBC, Tatler, U/Non-U
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Sunday Roundup: from Rails to Balls
–The new railroad line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa is featured in a recent illustrated story in the Irish Times. This project was financed by the Chinese and was placed into full operation earlier this year. The service is now … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Times, TLS
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Waugh in Italy
Milena Borden has kindly sent along this report of the recent Waugh seminar in Milan: On 17 November, at the British Council in Milan, a seminar “A Waugh Fest” took place. It was sponsored by BookCity, Milan University and the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Lectures, Manuscripts, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bompiani, British Council Milan, Italian translations, Martin Stannard
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Gabbitas & Waugh
The educational consultants known as Gabbitas have included the following historical description in their internet prospectus: Gabbitas has been involved with Independent Education for over 145 years. We have helped with the education of the British royal family, crowned heads … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Gabbitas, The Economist, The Spectator
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Midweek Roundup
–The New York Times reviews a new book about Los Angeles. This is David Kipen’s anthology, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018. According to the review this isn’t exactly a “rescue mission” for the much … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Alfred Duggan, Allan Massie, Catholic Herald, Los Angeles, Lucinda Riley, National Catholic Register, New York Times, The Sunday Times (South Africa)
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Author William Giraldi contributed an essay to Commonweal magazine as part of a series in which Roman Catholic intellectuals explain why they have left or remained in the church. A Catholic from birth, his article was posted on the magazine’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop
Tagged Catholic Herald, Commonweal, Daily Express, Literary Hub, Money Week, Stephanie Mann, William Geraldi
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Update: Patrick Balfour Copies
Bonhams has posted additional information regarding the sale of Patrick Balfour’s inscribed copies of several books by Evelyn Waugh. See previous post.: • An author’s presentation copy of Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning published in 1964. The book is accompanied … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bonhams, Patrick Balfour
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Bullying in the House?
In the 1960 BBC interview of Evelyn Waugh in the Face to Face series, presenter John Freeman posed a series of questions about Waugh’s career at Oxford. Among them are these relating to his children: Q. Are any of your … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Christ Church, Guardian
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