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Category Archives: Edmund Campion
Battle of the Oxfords
The regional UK paper Frome Times has announced an upcoming event that may be of interest to our readers: Lutyens’ Mells Park is the venue for a hot debate on Who Was Shakespeare? between biographer and critic Alexander Waugh, grandson … Continue reading
V S Naipaul (1932-2018) R.I.P.
V S Naipaul, writer of fiction and non-fiction, mostly about third world countries or their natives displaced to other lands, has died in England at the age of 85. His last notable action was to win the Nobel Prize in … Continue reading
Roundup: Vile Media
The magazine GQ India had an article about Asian-based novels satirizing Asian-based rich people. This opens with a reference to one of Waugh’s novels: It is an unassailable truth that where there is money, a thinly veiled roman-à-clef documenting the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Herald, Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, GQ India, Guardian, New Statesman, University of Regina
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Waugh-Themed Visit to Campion Hall
One of our contributors (Milena Borden) made a visit last week to Campion Hall in Oxford. Here is her report: The Secretary, Sarah Grey, arranged an appointment for me with Professor Peter Davidson who is the Senior Research Fellow and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall Oxford, Peter Davidson
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Waugh as Biographer, Up to a Point
In this week’s Spectator, the lead book review (“Biography is a thoroughly reprehensible genre”) is by Roger Lewis. In this, he describes a book by James Atlas entitled The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale. Atlas is a literary … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Fletcher, Financial Times, James Atlas, Karen Walker, Roger Lewis, Simon Kuper, Spectator, Vogue
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Private Chapels (More)
In a recent post we mentioned a newly built Roman Catholic private chapel at Culham Court near Henley in which regular services are held. The Catholic Herald has an article this week by Sarah Crofts about several more such private … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Milton Manor Chapel, Private Chapels, Stonor Chapel, Traditional Latin Mass
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Essay re Waugh’s Edmund Campion Posted
Gerard Kilroy has posted an essay in which he traces Waugh’s inspiration for his book Edmund Campion and its publishing history. Kilroy is author of a recent biography of Edmund Campion and co-editor of the OUP’s projected Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh volume … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Gerard Kilroy, Jesuits in England, thinkingfaith.org
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Russian Article on Waugh Available Online
Waugh scholar Irina Kabanova has written an article entitled “Evelyn Waugh and the USA”. This was published in December 2016 in the Russian language journal Literatura Dvukh Amerik (Literature of the Two Americas). It is now available online at this … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Edmund Campion, Helena, Research, The Loved One
Tagged Irina Kabanova, Literature of the Two Americas
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Sheed and Ward and Waugh
The Catholic Register, based in Toronto, has published a background story on Frank Sheed, who was a founder of the publishing house Sheed and Ward, among whose authors was Evelyn Waugh. The story begins: Born in Australia in 1897, Frank … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Register (Toronto), Frank Sheed, Sheed and Ward
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Campion Hall Takes Part in Complete Works Edition
The October issue of Campion News, the newsletter of Campion Hall, Oxford, has announced its participation in the OUP’s Complete Works of Waugh project: The recognised authority on Edmund Campion, Professor Gerard Kilroy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hall, is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall Oxford, Gerard Kilroy
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