What's with the criticism of Waugh? Of course she's a rounded character. 'It is now time to speak of Julia'. After that we get a long exposition of her...
The Guardian continues its top 10 series and a recent selection included novels about fruit. Unlikely as it may seem, Waugh's The Loved One was among those...
Does any one know whether on any of his trips to the USA Waugh ever visited or lectured in Washington, DC. I know he received an honorary degree from Loyola...
I think he was in the US very briefly on his visit to Mexico. That may have been the source for his information about the hotel in Brideshead. Fr D'Arcy...
That would probably explain why there is (or was) an art museum named for Fr. d'Arcy in Chicago that comes up when I Google him. It now seems to be a Martin...
... At the Georgetown symposium on Waugh in 2003, they used a picture of him with three Jesuits at the university. I have it in my files, but I'm away from my...
Thanks, John. I can now confirm that EW did visit Washington where he was a guest of Georgetown University and gave a lecture at Gaston Hall on February 10,...
I would like to thank everyone in the group who made suggestions for my England trip. I just returned yesterday from my literary tour. Enjoyed Hertford...
Waugh published a few poems in his youth. See my edition of "Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice," Whitston Publishing Company, Troy, NY. I think it's still in print or...
The Anthony Powell Society is holding its biennial conference this year at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Novelist Alan Furst is the keynote speaker...
A short piece in the Virginia Quarterly Review blog about EW and the essay he wrote for it, "The Rough Life." .... "'The Rough Life,' is not the most acerbic ...
Here's a link to the Guardian which reports that Martin Stannard has been spending the last 15 years writing an authorized biography of Muriel Spark. Odd that...
A report in the Daily Telegraph says that Muriel Spark tried to suppress Martin Stannard's biography which at first she had authorized: "Shortly before her...
Of course, Stannard knew, at the time of the Waugh biographies, next to nothing about Catholicism, which was something of a handicap, one might think. RMD ...
"Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead," by Paula Byrne, will be published in the UK by HarperCollins on August 20. A long extract from the...
The Literary Review has a very interesting review of Mad World written by Alexander Waugh. The web link is: http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/waugh_08_09.html...
Greetings! I have made arrangements to visit the Georgetown University archives library this October. The EW research librarian has graciously offered to pull...
He visited GU in 1949 on a lecture tour. He also stopped at Loyola College in Baltimore which is only 45 miles from Washington. You might find something of...
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So much for inference .... The URL for "On Guard" is http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b008d1xh , with six days left to listen. Antony F. P. Vickery ...
Im my review of Jane Mulvagh's book Madresfield in the latest EWNS I refer to some similarities noted by Mulvagh between the marriages of Lord Elmley who was...
In a touching piece about his his late friend Christopher Elkington, a Lancing old boy remembers Elkington's attempt to get the famous EW to write something...
Am I correct in assuming that neither Palazzo Corombona (which appears in at least two novels--BR and US)--nor Palazzo Fogliere (which is where Teresa Flyte...
"A COUPLE trying to save a dilapidated Welsh mansion [Plas Dulas, in Llanddulas, Conwy] that inspired a famous novelist fear it will be bulldozed because its...
Out of curiosity I performed a full-text search for "Evelyn Waugh" in the on-line edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and was rewarded with...
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