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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Waugh and Pre-Raphaelites at Yale
The New Criterion’s website has posted an article about an exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art entitled “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement”. The article is written by Stephen Schmalhofer and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged New Criterion, Stephen Schmalhofer, Yale Center for British Art
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Waugh Appears in Vatican Document Release
The Vatican recently released a large quantity of documentary archives that cover the period at the end of WWII. It is not surprising that much of the press comment on these documents relates to their reflection on the attitude of … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Pope Pius XII, Vatican, Yugoslavia
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Humor Books in the News
The Spectator has reposted a review from December 2005 by biographer and literary critic Bevis Hillier of the third edition of Ned Sherrin’s Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. He had some reservations about the earlier editions as being overly inclusive but … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Bevis Hillier, Sam Leith, The Spectator
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Virginia Troy: A Champagne Flute with an Iron Spine
An essay by Washington-based writer Eve Tushnet has been posted on the website of the conservative think tank Russell Kirk Center. This is entitled: “Champagne Flute with an Iron Spine: Dystopia and Providence in Five Novels.” Her topic is five … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Eve Tushnet, Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register, Russell Kirk Center
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D J Taylor on the Roman-à-Clef
In this week’s TLS, D J Taylor has contributed an essay in the Freelance column entitled “Write who you know: Ending up in a roman-à-clef.” This begins with a discussion of the four post-war novels written by William Cooper, starting … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Politiken, roman-à-clef, TLS
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Waugh and the Sitwells
The Daily Mail reports in Sebastian Shakespeare’s gossip column that the Sitwell family is selling off one of its principal properties: The Sitwells were once among the most celebrated of society families, inspiring the quip that they belonged to ‘the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Renishaw Hall, Sitwell Family, Weston Hall
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Waugh’s Religious Conversion
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent in the Western Christian churches, and perhaps in recognition of this date, the Catholic Herald has reposted an article from April 2016 relating to Waugh’s conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. This … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Catholic Herald, Constance Watson
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Shrove Tuesday Roundup
–The BBC has announced plans to release a collection of audio recordings of Jeremy Front’s radio adaptations of several works by Evelyn Waugh. This will include Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall as well as several others not identified specifically … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, LitHub.com, Sally Rooney, The Times
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Upcoming Waugh Events
Two Waugh-related events have been announced for late next month. Unfortunately, they occur on the same day but do not necessarily conflict: –The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh Project in Leicester has announced a reading from a new play based … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Events, Festivals, Oxford, Theater
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Loughborough, Sophie Swithinbank
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