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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Martin D’Arcy, Art Collector
The magazine America: The Jesuit Review has a feature article in its current issue about Waugh’s friend Martin D’Arcy, SJ. This is by Altair Brandon-Salmon and focuses on Fr D’Arcy’s art collecting talents as reflected in his several acquisitions displayed … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged America: The Jesuit Journal, Campion Hall, Fr. Martin D'Arcy
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Waugh at Campion College, Sydney
The Australian newspaper has posted an article based on the Occasional Address given by Dyson Heydon, a former High Court judge, at the recent graduation ceremony of Campion College in Sydney. He opens with this: Campion College is a small … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Campion College, Dyson Heydon, The Australian
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Sunday Roundup: from Rails to Balls
–The new railroad line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa is featured in a recent illustrated story in the Irish Times. This project was financed by the Chinese and was placed into full operation earlier this year. The service is now … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Times, TLS
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Waugh in Italy
Milena Borden has kindly sent along this report of the recent Waugh seminar in Milan: On 17 November, at the British Council in Milan, a seminar “A Waugh Fest” took place. It was sponsored by BookCity, Milan University and the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Lectures, Manuscripts, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bompiani, British Council Milan, Italian translations, Martin Stannard
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Midweek Roundup
–The New York Times reviews a new book about Los Angeles. This is David Kipen’s anthology, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018. According to the review this isn’t exactly a “rescue mission” for the much … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Alfred Duggan, Allan Massie, Catholic Herald, Los Angeles, Lucinda Riley, National Catholic Register, New York Times, The Sunday Times (South Africa)
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Author William Giraldi contributed an essay to Commonweal magazine as part of a series in which Roman Catholic intellectuals explain why they have left or remained in the church. A Catholic from birth, his article was posted on the magazine’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop
Tagged Catholic Herald, Commonweal, Daily Express, Literary Hub, Money Week, Stephanie Mann, William Geraldi
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Bullying in the House?
In the 1960 BBC interview of Evelyn Waugh in the Face to Face series, presenter John Freeman posed a series of questions about Waugh’s career at Oxford. Among them are these relating to his children: Q. Are any of your … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Christ Church, Guardian
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Martin Stannard to Lecture at Durham
Durham University has announced that Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh’s biographer and co-executive editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, will lecture there early next year. His topic will be “Evelyn Waugh, America and Catholicism”. This will probably touch on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Lectures
Tagged Durham University, Martin Stannard, Ushaw Lecture Series
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Waugh Letters on Offer
Jonkers Books of Henley-on-Thames has posted an offering of Waugh items. In addition to first editions and signed copies, there are several letters for sale. The first is a batch of 7 (4 short letters and 3 postcards) to Christopher … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Edmund Campion, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Basil Bennett, Chridtopher Sykes, Jonkers Books, SPB Mais
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Kelmscott Manor, Rossetti and Waugh
The following article was sent by Waugh Society member Milena Borden: Kelmscott Manor built around 1600 was the Cotswolds home of William Morris – writer, designer and craftsman – from 1871 until his death in 1896. It was also the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Complete Works, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Kelmscott Manor
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