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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Publication of Book on Waugh and Merton Announced
A book by Canadian author and educator Mary Frances Coady on the friendship of Evelyn Waugh and U.S. theologian Thomas Merton has been announced. Entitled Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain, it will … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism
Tagged Mary Frances Coady, Thomas Merton
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The Flytes Appear in Guardian’s “Families in Literature” Series
The Guardian newspaper is this week running a series of articles on “Families in Literature.” Yesterday’s article, by Moira Redmond, is devoted to the Flyte family in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Redmond focuses on the familiar theme that Sebastian is using … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous
Tagged Families, Guardian, Moira Redmond
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Waugh Cited Among Writers’ Christmas Diary Entries
Yesterday’s Independent on Sunday cites several diary entries from English writers, dating back to Samuel Pepys in 1662, in which they describe how they spent Christmas. Waugh’s diary for 25 December 1924 is among those quoted. This was his first … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Miscellaneous
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Christmas 1924, Independent on Sunday
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NYT Includes Waugh in World Religion Special
This week’s New York Times Book Review is a special edition devoted to the subject of world religion. They asked several authors to recommend novels with religious themes. Novelist and literary journalist Christopher Beha offered the following recommendation for Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Miscellaneous, Sword of Honour
Tagged Christopher Beha, New York Times Book Review
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Major Study of Waugh’s War Trilogy Published
Two well-known Waugh scholars have collaborated on a detailed study of Waugh’s War Trilogy. Their long-awaited work, In the Picture: The Facts Behind the Fiction in Evelyn Waugh’s “Sword of Honor,” was recently published by Editions Rodopi B.V. (Amsterdam and New … Continue reading
Sword of Honour Among Telegraph’s Best War and History Books
Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy was listed by the Daily Telegraph earlier this year among “Best War and History Books of All Time.” The list consisted of 35 books, including both fiction and history in English and translation. Here is the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Best War and History Books of All Time, Books to Read, Daily Telegraph
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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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