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Category Archives: Letters
Waugh Lecture on Friendship with Nancy Mitford
Lancing College has posted a report on the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture which was presented last week at the college by Selina Hastings: Selina’s subject for her talk was the literary and epistolary relationship between Waugh and his lifetime friend, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, Lancing, Lectures, Letters
Tagged Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings
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Waughs in Magazines
Two recent magazine articles are devoted to Waughs. The current issue of the Tablet contains an article entitled “Scoop revisited.” This is by critic and novelist D.J. Taylor and relates to the 1960 BBC Face-to-Face TV interview that was recently rebroadcast on the … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Interviews, Letters, Newsletter
Tagged BBC, Clive James, D.J.Taylor, John Freeman, Mark McGinness, Quadrant, The Tablet
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From the Scoop to the Sack to Baghdad
A blogger has posted a quote describing Waugh’s actions in the immediate aftermath of his sacking by the Daily Mail during his coverage of the Abyssinian War: “The Daily Mail sacked Waugh [… and] in December 1935 he left Abyssinia … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Scoop
Tagged Abyssinian War, Ann Pasternak Slater, Daily Mail, Diana Cooper
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La Stampa Joins in Waugh Commemoration
The Italian newspaper La Stampa, based in Turin, last week published an article commemorating the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death. This is by Paolo Bertinetti and is entitled “Evelyn Waugh, conservatore senza nulla da conservare” (“Conservative with nothing to preserve”). The … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Anniversaries, Articles, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Graham Greene, Italy, La Stampa, Paolo Bertinetti
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Waugh and Baby
The Daily Mail has printed the second and final installment of excerpts from Philip Eade’s new biography of Waugh to be published in July. Having devoted the first installment to his homosexual affairs at Oxford in the 1920s, this article tells … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Letters, Pixton
Tagged Daily Mail, Philip Eade, Teresa Jungman
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Daily Mail Prints Excerpt From New Waugh Biography
The Daily Mail has printed an excerpt from the new biography of Evelyn Waugh which will be published in the U.K. in July. This is by Philip Eade and will be issued by Weidenfeld and Nicolson who also published Waugh’s Diaries and … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Black Mischief, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Letters
Tagged Alistair Graham, Daily Mail, Harold Action, Philip Eade
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Waugh Assessment of O’Neill Play Cited
A Chicago artsblog (Chicago Reader) has cited Evelyn Waugh’s one-line assessment of Eugene O’Neill’s play Long Day’s Journey into Night. This is in a review of a new production of the play at Chicago’s Court Theater. Waugh saw the U.K. premiere … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, London, Waugh Family
Tagged Bristol Old Vic, Eugene O'Neill, Jeremy Irons, Long Day's Journey into Night, Margaret Waugh
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Waugh Portrait Featured in Vogue Exhibit
The National Portrait Gallery in London is currently running an exhibit entitled Vogue 100: A Century of Style. Among the artifacts on show is a 1950 portrait of Evelyn Waugh by photographer Irving Penn. This is described in an arts … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Events, Letters, London, Portraits
Tagged Irving Penn, National Portrait Gallery, Vogue
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Waugh at Chatsworth
The Yorkshire Post has a story about an exhibit at Chatsworth House of Cecil Beaton’s photographs. The photos themselves are mostly from Southebys but the subjects of these photos are visitors to Chatsworth. One of the photos is of Evelyn Waugh. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Photographs, Ronald Knox
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Chatsworth House, Daily Telegraph, Deborah Devonshire, New York Times
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