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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Novelist Joanna Trollope Salutes Evelyn Waugh
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
Posted in Interviews, Miscellaneous, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, character sources, Joanna Trollope, Mark Lawson
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Brits in Hollywood
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
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Miscellaneous, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Hollywood, Lisa Colletta, Waugh Centenary Conference
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New Evelyn Waugh paperback, hardback, e-book, and audiobook editions published by Little, Brown & Hachette
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
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
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous
Tagged Catch-22, Joseph Heller, Nina Bourne, Simon & Schuster
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Evelyn Waugh’s personal guidelines for dealing with fan mail
As above, from Flavorwire.
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Miscellaneous
Tagged Nancy Mitford
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Evelyn Waugh’s recipe for mulled claret
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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Tagged Francis O. Mattson, mulled claret, recipes
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A knighthood, on the other hand, may have gone down nicely
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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Tagged 1959, Allan Massie, CBE, honors, honours, Telegraph
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Paul Johnson: Novelists at Arms
Paul Johnson in Standpoint magazine surveys novels and novelists of the Second World War, including James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Anthony Powell, and Evelyn Waugh: It is a mistake, in my view, to hold a popularity contest between A … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Sword of Honour
Tagged Anthony Powell, James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Second World War, Standpoint, WWII
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Waugh meets a Lancing Old Boy at the Dorchester
The EWS thanks Mr. Ric Cooper for the following delightful anecdote, which arrived by email: My father, Giles Cooper, dramatised Sword of Honour for BBC television in 1966. Before the project could be confirmed, he and his long-time collaborator Donald … Continue reading
Comedian specializing in Evelyn Waugh wins BBC Mastermind quiz
Comedian Russell Kane, who chose The Life and Novels of Evelyn Waugh as his special subject, won BBC Television's Children In Need Mastermind Special 2011, broadcast on BBC2 on Nov. 11th. He scored an unusually high 18 out of 19 … Continue reading
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