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Category Archives: Locations
Selina Hastings to Give Annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture
Waugh biographer Selina Hastings will deliver the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College on Thursday. The lecture is not open to the public, but anyone interested in attending should contact Claire Welling at Lancing re making special arrangements: (click … Continue reading
Posted in Lancing, Lectures
Tagged Evelyn Waugh Lecture, Selina Hastings
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Telegraph Publishes Remembrance of Waugh
In today’s Sunday Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare writes a remembrance of Waugh. Shakespeare never apparently met Waugh personally but wrote and directed the three-part 198os BBC Arena documentary of Waugh. He is also editor of the Everyman edition of Waugh’s collected travel … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Interviews, Lancing, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Arena, Dudley Carew, Graham Greene, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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Waugh and Baby
The Daily Mail has printed the second and final installment of excerpts from Philip Eade’s new biography of Waugh to be published in July. Having devoted the first installment to his homosexual affairs at Oxford in the 1920s, this article tells … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Letters, Pixton
Tagged Daily Mail, Philip Eade, Teresa Jungman
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More News on Waugh Graves
The Times newspaper today carries a story by David Sanderson about the problem arising from the siting of the Waugh family graves. As noted in a previous post, the graves are situated in a ha-ha which stands between Waugh’s former house and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Combe Florey, Newspapers
Tagged Bishop of Bath and Wells, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Combe Florey, Septimus Waugh, Taunton Council, Times newspaper, Waugh family gravesites
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BBC to Mark Waugh Anniversary
BBC Radio 3 has announced a broadcast next week to mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death on Easter Day in 1966 . This will be a 45 minute episode of their programme Free Thinking. Here are the details: Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged Adam Mars-Jones, BBC Radio 3, Bryony Lavery, Free Thinking
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Oxford Literary Festival Announces Change in Waugh Event
There has been a change in the Oxford Literary Festival’s event marking the 50th Anniversary of Evelyn Waugh death. According to a new announcement, the event will involve the appearance of Paula Byrne, as previously announced, in a discussion with … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Events, Festivals, Oxford
Tagged Oxford Literary Festival
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The Queen Visits Waugh-Themed Restaurant
The Daily Telegraph reports a return visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II to Bellamy’s, the Waugh-themed restaurant in Mayfair, to celebrate a friend’s birthday: The name is both a homage to the gentlemen’s club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Bellamy's, Queen Elizabeth II, White's
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Waugh Assessment of O’Neill Play Cited
A Chicago artsblog (Chicago Reader) has cited Evelyn Waugh’s one-line assessment of Eugene O’Neill’s play Long Day’s Journey into Night. This is in a review of a new production of the play at Chicago’s Court Theater. Waugh saw the U.K. premiere … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, London, Waugh Family
Tagged Bristol Old Vic, Eugene O'Neill, Jeremy Irons, Long Day's Journey into Night, Margaret Waugh
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Waugh Family Urge Reinterment in Combe Florey Churchyard
The Spectator carries an article by Evelyn Waugh’s youngest son, Septimus, urging that the graves of his father, mother and sister be moved a few feet into the churchyard at Combe Florey: Fifty years have passed since the death of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Combe Florey, Requests, Waugh Family
Tagged Combe Florey churchyard, Septimus Waugh, Spectator
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