Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh

Oxford to Offer Waugh Seminar

The Oxford University Department of Continuing Education has announced a one-week seminar next summer on the topic Evelyn Waugh: Beyond Brideshead. The theme is explained in the announcement which was posted yesterday: Since his death 50 years ago, Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading

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Doctoral Dissertation re Intertextuality in Waugh Posted on Internet

A Ph.D. dissertation by Janelle Lynn Ortega entitled “‘I Heard the Same Thing Once Before’: Intertextuality in Selected Works of Evelyn Waugh” has been posted on the internet by the University of New Mexico. According to the abstract: …This dissertation … Continue reading

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Waugh Novel in Psychology Today Top 100

Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One was selected for inclusion in Psychology Today’s list of the top 100 novels everyone should read. The list was compiled by an Eng. Lit. professor at the University of Connecticut who has been assigning … Continue reading

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Leicester Schedules Waugh Events for Literary Festival

The Literary Leicester Festival has announced an ambitious schedule of Waugh-related events on Friday, November 18. A panel on textual editing will meet at 3-4pm at which Prof Martin Stannard and Drs Barbara Cooke and Sharon Ouditt will discuss issues … Continue reading

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Waugh Biography Reviewed in Standpoint Magazine

Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh is reviewed by Laura Freeman in Standpoint Magazine together with a recent biography of A E Housman by Peter Parker. Freeman connects the two authors at several points in the review, the first being their residence … Continue reading

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Rereading Barbara Skelton

In today’s Guardian, literary critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews the life and writings of Barbara Skelton. She was a fixture of interwar literary London Bohemia, having been the wife of, inter alia, both Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly and, … Continue reading

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A Norwegian Review of Waugh’s Career

The latest issue of Agenda Magasin (a Norwegian language journal) includes an extended esaay on the career of Evelyn Waugh and his literary legacy in Norway. This is by Ivar Dale and is written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading

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Waugh in Review of Auden’s Collected Works

In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, Edward Short reviews the the 6th and final volume of The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose. This is edited by Edward Mendelson. Waugh is mentioned several times: One can agree … Continue reading

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D&F Filming Moves to Winchester

The Southern Daily Echo, a local paper that covers Hampshire, reports that the crew filming the BBC adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall has moved from Cardiff to Winchester and is filming on location at Winchester College. According to … Continue reading

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Waugh’s Conversion

In an article posted on a Roman Catholic evangelical weblog Aleteia.org, the details of Evelyn Waugh’s conversion to that religion are provided, mostly in Waugh’s own words from a 20 October 1930 essay in the Daily Express. Waugh had written the … Continue reading

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