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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Waugh and Hugh Johnson
In an interview for a recent issue of The Sunday Times, wine expert and author Hugh Johnson mentions commissioning articles by Evelyn Waugh on the subject of wine. This appears in the introduction to the interview by Andrew Lynch: In … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Hugh Johnson, The Sunday Times, Wine and Food
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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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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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Wavian Roundup
—The Guardian reviews the new book by Nicholas Shakespeare, who wrote and directed the BBC’s 1980’s Arena TV documentary series known as The Waugh Trilogy. The book is entitled Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC News, Carlos Villar Flor, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Rioja2.com, telegrams
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Evelyn Waugh and Our Lady of Guadalupe
An article posted in the Burkean Journal (produced by students of Trinity College Dublin) describes the importance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Mexicans and to the history of Mexico. The article uses as its context the painting by Marxist artist … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Burkean Journal, Mexican history, Our Lady of Guadalupe
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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 Waugh’s Complete Works. The review, entitled “Author of Himself”, 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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Randolph Remembered
The Daily Beast has published a memoir of Randolph Churchill by Clive Irving. This is in response to Randolph’s relative neglect in the wake of all the attention accorded to his father following two recent successful film treatments and several … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Events, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Capital Research Center, Daily Beast, Guardian, Randolph Chirchill, The Times, V&A Museum, Winnie the Pooh
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Wavian Echoes from Abyssinian War
Milena Borden has sent the following article based on a recent event reported in Italy (see link) that recalls Waugh’s coverage of the Abyssinian War: Earlier this year, in Italy, the mayor and two town councillors of the town of … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Abyssinia, Rodolfo Graziani
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