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Category Archives: Lectures
Paula Byrne to Lecture at the NPG
The Jane Austen’s House Museum has announced a lecture that may be of interest to our readers. This is the T Edward Carpenter Memorial Lecture: “Jane Austen and the English Comic Tradition” by Dr Paula Byrne at the National Portrait … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Autographs, Evelyn Waugh Society, Lectures, London
Tagged Jane Austen's House Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Paula Byrne
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Upcoming Lectures: Lancing, Leicester and Langport
Several lectures have been announced that may be of interest to our readers in the UK: —Lancing College has announced this year’s Evelyn Waugh lecturer: The Evelyn Waugh Lecture was started in 2008 as a means of thanking all members … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Lancing, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Lancing College, Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, Nigel Wood, Sir Tim Rice, Somerset County Gazette
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Wodehouse Exhibit at British Library
The British Library will host an exhibit entitled P G Wodehouse: The Man and His Work. This will open on 27 November 2018. According to a related posting on the website Plumtopia, the exhibit will include materials from the Wodehouse … Continue reading
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Tagged British Library, P.G.Wodehouse
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Mid-Month Roundup: Schoolroom Confusion
Our latest roundup starts with references to Waugh’s school days and ends with the 1970s Penguin reprints: —The Independent newspaper has published a list of what it considers the Top 10 examples of celebrities overlapping at the same school. Private … Continue reading
Roundup: Orphans and Entrecote
This week’s roundup relates mostly to books and book reviews: –In reviewing the book Orphans: A History by Jeremy Seabrook in The Spectator, novelist Philip Hensher considers several eaxmples of how orphans have been treated in literature by various authors, … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh at the Hay Festival
An article in Vanity Fair describes an event at this year’s Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye that featured a reading from a work of Evelyn Waugh. So far as appeared from the schedule, there were no events in which a Waugh … Continue reading
Naomi Milthorpe on Waugh
Naomi Milthorpe, author of Evelyn Waugh’s Satire (now available as an ebook as well as hardback), will appear later this week at the University of Tasmania’s Humanities Showcase. Her topics will be archives, literary objects and Evelyn Waugh. Also on the program … Continue reading
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Tagged Humanities Showcase, Naomi Milthorpe, University of Tasmania
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Brideshead Actress Dies in France
Actress Stéphane Audran who played Cara in the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisited has died in France at the age of 85. She was married at one time to new wave film director Claude Chabrol and at another, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brunel University London, Country Houses, Daily Express, Shakespeare, Spear's magazine, Stephane Audran, Vogue, weddings
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At Hertford College with ‘Waugh’s Enemies’ and Friends
The following account was written by Milena Borden who attended the lecture in Oxford earlier this week. Many thanks to Milena for her report: The title of the Monday afternoon discussion in the Dining Hall of Hertford College was as … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Lectures, Oxford
Tagged Hertford College, Milena Borden
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