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Category Archives: Letters
Driberg’s Wedding
The Daily Express opens its weekend TV review column with a quote from Waugh: WHEN the novelist Evelyn Waugh received an invitation to the wedding of the notorious philandering MP Tom Driberg, he declined to go. “I expect the church will … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Daily Express, Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg
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Esquire Lists Vile Bodies Among Top 20 Funniest Books
Esquire magazine conducted a poll among comedians and writers to name their funniest books and came up with a list of the top 20. Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) is included: It is a gift to the satirist to live in turbulent times but … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged comic novels, Esquire
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Evelyn Waugh’s Ireland Whinges
The Irish Times has collected what its correpondent Frank McNally considers a history of Ireland as told in the top 100 whinges. Waugh may come top whinger with a total of 9 to his credit: 37. “Among the countless blessings I … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters
Tagged Ireland, Irish Times
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Vile Bodies Inspired by Misery
In today’s Boston Globe, columnist Alex Beam has an article bemoaning what he sees as the seemingly inexorable spread of gratuitous happiness. He cites Evelyn Waugh as an example of what it’s opposite can inspire: What’s so great about happiness? … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alex Beam, Boston Globe, happiness
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Waugh’s Religion
In the current issue of the U.K. paper The Catholic Herald, an article (“Seduced by the ‘Devil’ Hitler” by Francis Phillips) opens with a familiar quote from Evelyn Waugh: There is a well-known story about the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Christopher Sykes, Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings, The Catholic Herald
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Evelyn Waugh and Lady Chatterley
The latest online edition of the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland contains a review of the book Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Studies published last year. The review mentions the case of R. v Penguin Books in which prosecution was … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged D.H. Lawrence, Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Studies, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Evelyn Waugh, Conversation and Dean Swift
In a weblog entitled Anecdotal Evidence, blogger Patrick Kurp has posted an article based on Frances Donaldson’s 1967 memoir Evelyn Waugh: Diary of a Country Neighbor. It opens with this quote: “When he came to our house or we took … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Letters
Tagged art of conversation, Frances Donaldson, Jonathan Swift
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Waugh Passage Included in Book on Post-War Germany
A new book edited by Lara Feigel collects writings from various sources describing Germany in the aftermath of WWII. This is Bitter Taste of Victory to be published in the U.K. on 28 January by Bloomsbury. Feigel is the author of … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Letters, World War II
Tagged Bitter taste of Victory, Lara Feigel, Nuremberg war trials
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First Edition of Brideshead to be Auctioned
Today’s papers report that a rare pre-publication copy of Brideshead Revisited belonging to the late Duchess of Devonshire (born Deborah Mitford) will be auctioned by Southeby’s. Here is the story from the Guardian: The items include a true first edition of … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox
Tagged Deborah Mitford, Financial Times, Guardian, Southeby's
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Publisher of Waugh’s Diaries and Letters Dies
The Daily Telegraph has announced the death at the age of 96 of George Weidenfeld, who published Waugh’s Diaries and Letters. According to the Telegraph, Weidenfeld sometimes said that [Vladimir Nabokov’s] Lolita (1959, a “cautionary tale”) and [Mary McCarthy’s] The Group … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Letters
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Encounter, George Weidenfeld, Noblesse Oblige, U and Non-U
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