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Category Archives: A Little Learning
Waugh and the Jellyfish
A recent travel guide includes a reference to Waugh’s fortuitous encounter with a jellyfish off the coast of Wales in 1925, where its intervention aborted Waugh’s attempted suicide. This guide is entitled Britain by the Book and is written by academic … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Wales
Tagged Jellyfish, Oliver Tearle, suicide
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D J Taylor Reviews the Complete Works
In the current issue of Literary Review, literary critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews the first four volumes of Evelyn Waughâs Complete Works. The review, entitled âAuthor of Himselfâ, manages to be at the same time thorough, scholarly and … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Interviews, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged D.J.Taylor, George Orwell, Literary Review
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At Hertford College with âWaughâs Enemiesâ and Friends
The following account was written by Milena Borden who attended the lecture in Oxford earlier this week. Many thanks to Milena for her report: The title of the Monday afternoon discussion in the Dining Hall of Hertford College was as … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Lectures, Oxford
Tagged Hertford College, Milena Borden
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“Tsunami of Waviana”
The Australian magazine Quadrant has a review in its online edition by Mark McGinness of the early volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh published earlier this week. The article is entitled “Total Waugh.” McGinness begins with an effort to … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Letters, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Mark McGinness, Oxford University Press, Prufrock, Quadrant magazine, Weekly Standard
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First Complete Works Volumes Published
The first four volumes of Evelyn Waugh’s Complete Works have been published by Oxford University Press. Alexander Waugh is interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in yesterday’s edition of World at One in connection with this event. The interview is by … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio 4, David Sexton, Evening Standard, Luke Jones, World at One
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Waughs and the Bat Colony
Late last month in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we posted a message about the Waugh Drive Bridge in Houston and its bat colony. Patrick Kurp, who maintains a weblog called “Anecdotal Evidence” and lives in Houston, has provided the … Continue reading
Handful, Oxford and North End Road
Author Gill Hornby in her Daily Mail column takes up the literary genre of expat novels. This is in response to two of her children expatriating themselves: We Brits didnât only build the model for expat life, weâve also provided its … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Academia, Diaries, Hampstead, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Christ Church, Daily Mail, expat novels, Gill Hornby, Hertford College, North End Road, TomWinnifrigh.com, YouTube
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Two Hitchenses on Waugh
Articles on Waugh by brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens have recently been resurrected on the internet. These are Christopher’s essay “The Permanent Adolescent” which originally appeared in The Atlantic magazine for April 2003 and was later collected in Arguably. This is now … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Articles, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged Aleteia.com, Christopher Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens, YouTube
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Waugh Exhibition Catalogue Available Online
The catalogue of E.W. Pinxit: An Exhibition of the Graphic Art of Evelyn Waugh is available online and may be downloaded in pdf format from this link. It is written by Mark Everett with the assistence of Ed Maggs and Alice … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Items for Sale, London
Tagged art exhibit, catalogue, Maggs Bros booksellers, Mark Everett
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