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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
HHA Literary Trail (more)
Another local paper (The Gazette) has published a story about Evelyn Waugh’s association with a country house on the Historic House Association’s new literary trail. This is Woodchester Mansion located between Dursley (where the Waughs lived from 1937-1955) and Stroud. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dursley, National Trust, Nympsfield, Piers Court, Woodchester Mansion, Woodchester Park
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Waugh and the Great Ladies
Lyndsy Spence, founder of The Mitford Society and editor of their annual collection of essays, articles and reviews (which recently published its 4th volume) has also written a series of essays about aristocratic women of the interwar period. This is entitled These Great Ladies: … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Doris Delevingne, Emerald Cunard, Lyndsy Spence, The Mitford Society, These Great Ladies: Peeresses and Pariahs
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Waugh and Highclere (More)
The Countess of Carnarvon who presently resides with her husband at Highclere Castle in Hampshire has written a book about entertaining there. The house was the setting for the recent Downton Abbey TV series and is being open to the … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Daily Mail, Highclere Castle, Lady Fiona Carnarvon, Sibell Lygon
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The Loved One is Prescribed Reading for Europeans
Writing in his Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung blog, “Don Alphonso” informs his European readers that they cannot understand what is going on in the United States today unless they have first read Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One (in German translated as Tod … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Don Alphonso, FAZ, Laurie Penny, Milo Yiannopoulos
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Evelyn Waugh and the “Catholic Novel”
A blogger writing as Tychy has posted an article billed as a review of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock but is really an essay on Greene’s writing as a Roman Catholic novelist. The blogger (a non-catholic) begins by comparing Greene’s … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Andrew Biswell, Anthony Burgess, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, The Tablet, Tychy
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Waugh Topic of Lecture and Preview
This month will see Waugh’s biographer Martin Stannard lecture in Oxford and the BBC’s film of Decline and Fall previewed in Cardiff: Campion Hall in Oxford will host a lecture by Prof Martin Stannard entitled “No Abiding City: Evelyn Waugh and America”. Stannard, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Television, The Loved One, Wales
Tagged Anthony Burgess Society, BBC, Campion Hall, Martin Stannard
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TLS Reprints Review of “Miss” Evelyn Waugh’s First Book
In last week’s edition (22 February 2017), the TLS in its “From the Archives” column has reprinted its 1928 review of Evelyn Waugh’s first book: Rossetti: His Life and Works. This review was published anonymously, as was then customary, but … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged T Sturge Moore, TLS
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Anniversary on Horizon
A passage from Waugh’s 1935 biography of Edmund Campion has been quoted on a religious website by Fr John Hunwicke (formerly a teacher and chaplain at Lancing College). This is intended to provide a context for the observance next year of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Elizabeth I, Fr John Hunwicke, Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis
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Evelyn Waugh and Selina Hastings x 2
Forum Auctions has posted an early letter from Evelyn Waugh (sometime in 1929) relating to the writing of Vile Bodies. This is addressed to Lord Hastings and thanks him for the loan of a two-volume work about his ancestor Selina, Countess … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Forum Auctions, Lord Hastings, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings
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