- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Tag Archives: New Statesman
Alec Waugh, Man of Letters
In a previous post, it was mentioned that a new book by D.J. Taylor somewhat enigmatically displayed Alec Waugh’s name on its cover. This is in Taylor’s study of English men of letters entitled The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 . Subsequent reviews … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh
Tagged Herald (Glasgow), Island in the Sun, Men of Letters, New Statesman, The Prose Factory
Comments Off on Alec Waugh, Man of Letters
U and Non-U Updated
In a posting on the academic weblog The Conversation, Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford, Simon Horobin, has updated Nancy Mitford’s 1955 essay on class distinctions of usage in English speech and manners. Waugh’s contribution to the public debate … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Oxford
Tagged Nancy Mitford, New Statesman, Noblesse Oblige, Simon Horobin, The Conservation
Comments Off on U and Non-U Updated
Nicholas Lezard’s Waugh Moment
In his column in this week’s New Statesman, journalist and critic Nicholas Lezard experiences a Waugh moment worthy of note. While looking for excuses to delay preparations for a trip to the U.S., he is introduced to his daughter’s new boyfriend. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged New Statesman, Nicholas Lezard
Comments Off on Nicholas Lezard’s Waugh Moment
Waugh Surfaces in Bosnia
Mark Lawson in this week’s New Statesman reviews a novel by Jesse Armstrong which is said to have a distinct Wavian influence: Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals. (The choice of title would not appear to have been influenced by … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Bosnian War, Jesse Armstrong, Mark Lawson, New Statesman, William Boyd
Comments Off on Waugh Surfaces in Bosnia
Lodge Memoirs (more)
In this week’s New Statesman, journalist and academic John Mullan reviews the memoirs of David Lodge (see earlier post) and Antonia Fraser (My History: A Memoir of Growing Up). He sees the two writers as a contrast between “prole” and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Sightings
Tagged Antonia Fraser, David Lodge, John Mullan, New Statesman
Comments Off on Lodge Memoirs (more)
Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh
The current issue of Standpoint reprints a 1986 letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper in which he attempts to explain why he and Evelyn Waugh were not, to put it mildly, close chums. HTR (1914-2003) was an academic who first came to … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Letters, Sightings
Tagged Farm Street Church, Frank Pakenham, Graham Green, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Martin D'Arcy, New Statesman, Vatican II
Comments Off on Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh
