- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Category Archives: Non-fiction
Waugh Abroad: Firbank and Scoop
Two foreign language journals have recently reviewed works of Waugh. The first is in the Italian religious website Radio Spada. In that essay, Luca Fumagalli reviews an early essay by Waugh on Ronald Firbank that appeared in a 1929 issue … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Diario Sanitario, Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
Comments Off on Waugh Abroad: Firbank and Scoop
Modernism’s Centenary Marked: Essay and Lecture
There have been several stories in the papers recently about the major events in the history of modern literature that occurred in 1922. A recent article by John Self in The Critic magazine does an excellent job of bringing them … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, John Self, Modernism, T S Eliot Society, The Critic, The Waste Land, University of Leicester
Comments Off on Modernism’s Centenary Marked: Essay and Lecture
Midwinter Roundup
–Charles Moore writing in his miscellany column for The Spectator marks the upcoming 70th anniversary of the death of George VI: King George VI died in his sleep 70 years ago next week, after a day at Sandringham shooting hares … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Vile Bodies
Tagged Guardian, Radio Spada, The Data Lounge, The Spectator, UT Permian Basin
Comments Off on Midwinter Roundup
MLK Birthday Roundup
–In the Daily Telegraph, combining elements of the travel and gardening columns, Matt Collins describes a recent trip to the Atlantic island of Madeira: Upholding at least six of writer Paul Theroux’s 10 golden rules of travel, I went alone … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anne Messel, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Penguin Modern Classics, The Spectator, The Times, TLS, Washington Post
Comments Off on MLK Birthday Roundup
Evelyn Waugh’s Centenary at Oxford
This month marks the centenary of Evelyn Waugh’s matriculation at Oxford. He started his Oxford career at Hertford College on 8 January 1922. That was the beginning of Hilary Term in 1922; this year, it begins next Sunday, 16 January … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Anniversaries, Oxford
Comments Off on Evelyn Waugh’s Centenary at Oxford
Roundup: Parties, T-shirts and Statues
–The Financial Times has an article by Rosa Lyster on “What makes a great fictional party.” This is inspired by the party drought that was only broken only a few months ago: …As well as people, music and a reason … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television
Tagged Bodleian Library, British Library, Financial Times, T-shirts, Variety
Comments Off on Roundup: Parties, T-shirts and Statues
New Year’s Roundup
–In a semi-final round of the University Challenge Christmas edition on BBC4, broadcast 29 December 2021, a three-part bonus question was based on the writings of Selina Hastings. The question (at 11:02 minutes) was to identify the subjects of three … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Independent, Life Magazine, New York Times, University Challenge, Vogue
Comments Off on New Year’s Roundup
Boxing Day Roundup
–Penguin have announced the issuance of a new edition of Waugh’s first book Rossetti: His Life and Work. This will be in the Penguin Modern Classics series and will be issued in the UK in April 2022. It will be … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Vile Bodies
Tagged b/o/i, Books & Boots, Catholic Herald, Los Angeles Review of Books, Penguin Books
Comments Off on Boxing Day Roundup
When the Going Was Good @ 75
Waugh’s collection of travel writings from the 1930s was published in the UK 75 years ago today. This was entitled When the Going Was Good. US publication followed in January 1947. This was has first book to be published after … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, When the Going Was Good
Comments Off on When the Going Was Good @ 75
Septimus Waugh: Reminiscence
The Tablet’s latest issue has a reminiscence of the late Septimus Waugh. This appears in the “Word from the Cloister” column and is based on an interview of Jimmy Burns, journalist and member of The Tablet’s board. He was a … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Diaries, Edmund Campion, Interviews, Newspapers, Waugh Family, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Jimmy Burns, Septimus Waugh, The Tablet, Tom Burns
Comments Off on Septimus Waugh: Reminiscence
