Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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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Waugh on Weddings

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

As the month of June approaches, Moira Redmond was inspired to contribute an article to the Guardian newspaper for May 20, 2014 entitled “Marriage plots: the best wedding dresses in literature.” The article is included in a regular column called Books Blog … Continue reading →

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Waugh Wins Place in Literary Bad Mothers Competition

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

In recognition of English Mother’s Day and to counterbalance the rash of  greeting card  excess, the Guardian has published an article by Moira Redmond entitled Bad Mothers in Books: a literary litany.  Top award goes to Charles Dickens with a hat … Continue reading →

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Novelist Joanna Trollope Salutes Evelyn Waugh

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

In a BBC TV interview broadcast last Sunday (March 23, 2014) which continues to be available over the internet on BBC iPlayer, Mark Lawson spoke with novelist Joanna Trollope about her writing career.  She is distantly related to the novelist … Continue reading →

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Brits in Hollywood

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

The long-awaited publication of Lisa Colletta’s British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965: Travelers, Exiles, and Expats took place last month in both the US and the UK. Professor Colletta presented a preliminary version of portions of the book relating to Waugh … Continue reading →

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New Evelyn Waugh paperback, hardback, e-book, and audiobook editions published by Little, Brown & Hachette

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

On December 11, Little, Brown reissued the works of fiction of Evelyn Waugh in both paperback, hardback, and e-book formats (e-book link is to Amazon Kindle editions). Waugh’s books were last reissued by Little, Brown in 1999. Hachette Audio is … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh’s review of Catch-22

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

In 1961, soliciting a blurb for the coming release of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, an employee of its publisher Simon & Schuster sent an advance copy to Evelyn Waugh. His reply to Miss Bourne begins: Thank you for sending me Catch … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh’s personal guidelines for dealing with fan mail

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

As above, from Flavorwire.

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Evelyn Waugh’s recipe for mulled claret

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The following item was published in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Winter 1972). Waugh’s Mulled Claret Francis O. Mattson “It was shortly before midnight in early March; I had been entertaining the college intellectuals to mulled claret; … Continue reading →

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A knighthood, on the other hand, may have gone down nicely

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Evelyn Waugh appears in the recently released list of people who have declined honours (as he would have spelt it). He refused the offer of a CBE in 1959. Allan Massie's blog post in The Telegraph provides some details and … Continue reading →

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