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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Smoke Signals from Waugh
Duncan McLaren has posted a lavishly illustrated photographic essay showing Waugh posing with pipe and cigar. Here’s a link. The pipe smoking photos seem to be post Oxford in the 1920s and the cigar smoking, post war. This leaves a … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Photographs
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Havana cigars
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A Little More Learning
Sophia Waugh, Evelyn’s grand daughter and Auberon’s daughter, writes this week in the Catholic Herald about the current state of Roman Catholic schools in the UK. The article opens with a brief review of the differing attitudes of various members … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Catholic Herald, education
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Roundup: Sash Windows and Sitwells
–Eleanor Doughty writing in Country Life considers whether sash windows should be repaired or replaced. She opens the story with this: There is something about a sash window, isn’t there? The gentle squeak and heave as you lift it up, … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Catholicism, Combe Florey, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Charile Watts, Country Life, San Diego Union Tribune, Sitwell Family, The Economist, The Oldie
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Adaptations Abound
–In a recent issue of The Spectator, Chilton Williamson, Jr considers the success of the 1950s Perry Mason CBS TV series in light of today’s alternatives. Here’s the opening of the article: I was well into my thirties when my … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One
Tagged Alexander Larman, Castle Howard, Chilton Williamson Jr, Perry Mason, The Critic, The Spectator
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Waugh Podcasts
Podcasts relating to books by two Waughs have recently been posted. –The first is on the Bowie Book Club website. This is loosely related to singer-songwriter David Bowie’s list of 100 favorite books that included Waugh’s Vile Bodies. That is … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Vile Bodies, Waugh Family
Tagged Bowie Book Club, Tessa Williams Podcast
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Helena and Lolita in One Day
–The Gregorian Institute at Benedictine College in Atkinson, Kansas yesterday posted several quotes from Waugh’s novel Helena. This was on the occasion of St Helen’s day on 18 August in the Roman Catholic calendar. Here is the introduction: British novelist … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Helena, Letters
Tagged Garrison Keillor, Lolita, The Gregorian Institute, Vladimir Nabokov
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Oxford Campion Event (More)
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh has issued an invitation to recently announced book launch at Campion Hall in Oxford. See earlier post dated 26 July. This clarifies that the book to be launched is the OUP Complete Works edition … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Events, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall, Gerard Kilroy
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Evelyn Waugh Studies 52.1 (Spring 2021)
The latest issue of the Evelyn Waugh Studies has been published and distributed to members. This is issue No. 52.1 (Spring 2021). The contents and opening paragraphs are as follows: ARTICLES Evelyn Waugh: A Housemaster’s Report Jeremy Tomlinson Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Lancing
Tagged Graham Greene, Jeremy Tomlinson
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Roundup: Vagaries and More
–Writing in the TLS, critic and novelist DJ Taylor discusses one genre he discovered he enjoyed during his lockdown reading. He identifies this as the writer’s vagary: What is the writer’s vagary? It is the solitary book in a well-known … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Helena, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Radio Spada, TLS, Town & Country
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Waugh Would Not Be Happy
To Evelyn Waugh, one of the most important aspects of the Roman Catholic Church’s Vatican II reforms of 1960 was the limitation on the use of the traditional Latin Mass. He spent his final years in active opposition to this … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged Globe and Mail, Latin Mass, Radio Spada
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