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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Two Waugh Novels Make BBC’s Top 100 List
The BBC recently conducted a poll of literary critics outside the UK to determine their choices of the 100 greatest British novels. Novels written by Irish or other non-British authors were excluded. The poll included 82 critics who were each asked to name … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Scoop
Tagged BBC, British novels
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Waugh Novel Recommended in Gift List
A Waugh novel has been selected for a list of potential gifts to be given to “conservative gentlemen.” The list appears on the weblog The Imaginative Conservative. The criteria for inclusion provide that the gift must be “quality if not…costly” (avoiding ties, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Television
Tagged The Imaginative Conservative
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Waugh Included in “More Letters of Note”
Waugh’s 1942 letter to his wife recounting the disastrous results of his army unit’s attempt to remove a tree stump from the garden of a Scottish aristocrat has now been included in a collection entitled More Letters of Note, edited by Shaun … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, World War II
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Jessica Mitford, More Letters of Note
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Waugh’s Pick-Me-Up Cocktail
A New Zealand-based news website (Stuff.co.nz) has included a Waugh-sourced cocktail in an article (“Three ways with…festive fizz“) recommending drinks for the holiday. This is called a “Firestarter,” and Waugh is cited as having introduced it in his writings. Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Labels
Tagged Firestarter, holiday drinks, Stuff.co.nz
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Waugh Named Author of the Week
A Durham University based weblog (The Bubble) has named Waugh its “Author of the Week.” Here’s an excerpt from their supporting statement: Waugh’s education in Oxford fostered a deep love of country house society which influenced many of his novels, the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Durham University, The Bubble
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Unfaithful Wives in the Guardian
Novelist Piers Paul Read has compiled a list of the Top 10 Novels About Unfaithful Wives earlier this week in the Guardian. Among those named are Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. It seemed odd that there was nothing by … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour
Tagged Guardian, Piers Paul Read, Unfaithful Wives
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Waugh on Writing x 3
Waugh scores a hat trick in today’s press with three stories citing him on the art of writing. In the Daily Express, Waugh appears in a review of the BBC’s ongoing series based on John Lanchester’s 2012 novel Capital. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Interviews, Television
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Harvard Crimson
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Fitzroy Maclean Commemorated on St. Andrew’s Day
Fitzroy Maclean, Waugh’s commanding officer in Yugoslavia, was commemorated yesterday in an editorial on the Foreign and Colonial Office weblog. The occasion was St. Andrew’s Day. Maclean was, needless to say, Scottish. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘A man of daring … Continue reading
Posted in Helena, Letters, World War II
Tagged Fitzroy Maclean, Foreign and Colonial Office
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Waugh in Round Britain Quiz
A Waugh novel was part of a question in a recent Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. The teams were Scotland and Wales and this question was put to the Scotland team: Q8 (from Stephen Gore) In which apparently unproductive source … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged BBC, Round Britain Quiz. The Waste Land
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Waugh in the Belton House Library
A poem entitled “Belton Park” by writer William Bedford has been posted on The Poetry Shed where he is named a Featured Poet. A c.v. and list of his publications can be seen here. The poem was written in memory of Walter Bedford who is … Continue reading
Posted in Edmund Campion, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Belton House, Peregrine Brownlow, William Bedford
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