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Category Archives: Letters
Cyril Connolly Reconsidered
In an essay in the current TLS, Brian Dillon reconsiders the career of Waugh’s contemporary and friend Cyril Connolly. The essay is entitled “Cyril Connolly and the literature of depression” and was originally published in Dillon’s collection Essayism. Dillon recognizes this topic is … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Brian Dillon, Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, TLS
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Baltimore Sun Quotes Waugh on Useage
In his Baltimore Sun column entitled “You Don’t Say” (about language, useage, etc.), John McIntyre quotes a paragraph from a letter Evelyn Waugh wrote to Nancy Mitford in which Waugh comments on an article she wrote for Encounter magazine on the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Baltimore Sun, John McIntyre, Nancy Mitford
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General Election, Water Voles, and Nothing
A local news website in Kent has introduced Evelyn Waugh as an issue in the ongoing UK General Election. Kent Online has compiled a list of candidates for the seat in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency, with a thumbnail sketch provided … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged General Election, Hanif Kureishi, Henry Green, Kent Online, Private Eye, The Times, water voles
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Complete Works of Waugh Available in USA
Amazon.com is offering for sale in the USA the first five volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh to be published by Oxford University Press. The dates of publication and US dollar prices are set forth below. For more details … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Amazon.com, Oxford University Press
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OUP Announces Dates for First Complete Works Volumes
The Oxford University Press on its website has announced the publication of the first volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. There are five books in this initial batch which will begin to appear on 7 September 2017 with Rossetti: … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Complete Works of Waugh publication dates, Oxford University Press
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Helena and Crete
The Tablet has published an article relating to correspondence that arose in response to a mention of Waugh’s novel Helena in a 1951 book review in that paper. The review by Fr Gerard Meath related to Dorothy Sayer’s book The Emperor Constantine. This is explained in an … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged The Tablet, Washington Times
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Hetton Abbey and Carlton Towers
Blogger Cathy Murray posting on her weblog “Cabbages and Semolina” has discussed several country houses that have inspired literary locations. After mentioning the connection between Highclere Castle and Downton Abbey and that between Castle Howard and Brideshead Castle she notes that: A less well known … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Diaries, Film, Letters, Locations
Tagged Carlton Towers, Cathy Murray
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Waugh and the Sri Lankan Cubist
The Deccan Chronicle, an English-language paper based in Hyderabad, has published an article about a 20th century Sri Lankan artist little known in the West. This is George Keyt (1901-1993) who is described as a cubist, influenced by the works … Continue reading
Visit to Oslo
A letter from Evelyn Waugh to a Mr Some on the stationery of the Grand Hotel in Oslo is to be sold by Forum Auctions later this month. The letter would have been written in August 1947 while Waugh was on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters
Tagged Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland, Norway
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