Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh

Complete Works Event at Literary Leicester Festival, Nov. 12

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

From the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s news pages: It’s been just over a year since work began on the first ever Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Together with Oxford University Press and the Waugh family, the project has been … Continue reading →

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Previously Unknown Evelyn Waugh Letters for Sale at Bonhams

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

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 →

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New Age Waugh

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s New York Times Book Review contains a review by writer David Leavitt of a novel by British satirist Edward St. Aubyn that was originally published in England in 1998. The novel, entitled On the Edge, is compared to … Continue reading →

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Scoop Included in Daily Telegraph Top 100

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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Inaugural Dead Meet Up, London, Nov. 26th: “The Loved One” and the Reality of Embalming

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

There is nothing new under the sun. Except, perhaps, this: On Wed., Nov. 26th, at Barts Pathology Museum in London, Dead Meet (“Dating and Networking for Death Professionals”), is holding its Inaugural Dead Meet Up, a networking event at which … Continue reading →

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Last Mitford Sister Dies at 94

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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Waugh and Spanish Civil War

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s views on the Spanish Civil War recently came up for comment in the TLS. In his review (July 4) of a recent book about war correspondents in Spain, Hotel Florida by Amanda Vaill, Jeremy Treglown commented that it was … Continue reading →

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Complete Works Project Launches New Website

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project at the University of Leicester has launched a new website. Its Resources page is particularly useful. The project blog can be found here.

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Peter Harrington’s Evelyn Waugh catalog

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The bookseller Peter Harrington’s Evelyn Waugh catalog contains many desirable volumes, none more so than Graham Greene’s inscribed copy of Helena (£25,000). Note, however, the last sentence in PH’s description of the item: First edition, first impression, large paper issue, … Continue reading →

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1960s Vintage Films of Waugh Novels Now Available on DVD

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

According to this post by film blogger Michael Barrett, both the early theatrical films made of Waugh novels are now available in digital format: The Loved One (MGM, 1965, directed by Tony Richardson, screenplay by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood), … Continue reading →

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