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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Waugh Cameo in BBC Series on Tatler Magazine
BBC has started a series of three programs on Tatler magazine: Posh People: Inside Tatler. In the first episode (Monday, 24 November) Matthew Bell, newly appointed Commissioning Editor, is among those interviewed. He was formerly the society diarist for the Independent … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Television Programs
Tagged BBC 2, Bullingdon Club, Hertford College, Matthew Bell, Tatler Magazine
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Guardian Adds Scoop to Top 100 Novels List
Robert McCrum, novelist and literary journalist, has for several months been writing a weekly Guardian column naming and discussing what he considers the 100 best novels in English. He is working through the history of English novel year by year … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Robert McCrum, Scoop
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Lecture by Dr. Lisa Colletta at the American University of Rome, “Travelers, Exile, and Expats: British Novelists in Hollywood”
On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, Lectures, The Loved One
Tagged American University of Rome, Hollywood, Lisa Colletta
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Editor of Waugh’s Letters Retires from The Spectator
Mark Amory, who edited the pioneering volume of Evelyn Waugh’s letters that appeared in 1980, has recently announced his retirement as Literary Editor of The Spectator. He went to work there in “about 1985.” In his valedictory article announcing his … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Jeremy Clarke, Mark Amory, The Spectator
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Previously Unknown Evelyn Waugh Letters for Sale at Bonhams
Three previously unknown letters from Evelyn Waugh to his friend Eleanor Watts, the girlfriend of the man who ran off with the novelist’s wife in 1929, are to be sold at Bonhams Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale on … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bonhams, Eleanor Watts
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Scoop Included in Daily Telegraph Top 100
Last month the Daily Telegraph published a list of the 100 novels everyone should read. This includes translations as well as books in English. There is no explanation of how or by whom the list was compiled or whether the books … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph
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Last Mitford Sister Dies at 94
Deborah Cavendish (nee Freeman-Mitford), Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, died earlier this week at the age of 94. Evelyn Waugh and she were friends, though she was not nearly as close to him as were her older sisters Nancy and Diana. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, Ronald Knox
Tagged Chatsworth, Deborah Mitford, Mitford Sisters
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