Thanks, Tony. Waugh misspelled it probably confusing it with the Dickens character although some of the OED examples are similar to his variation. Waugh...
A threaded discussion capability has been added to the website of the Evelyn Waugh Society at http://evelynwaughsociety.org/forums/ . The forums can be viewed...
Several writers make appearances in Alan Hollinghurst's latest novel The Stranger's Child and Waugh is among them, although indirectly. The novel is written...
Hello folks, Does anyone know of a study that examines Waugh's debts to Victorian novelists? I'm thinking, for instance of the way *The Ordeal of Gilbert ...
... Welcome, Seth. I can think of three things that might be useful, none directly related to the example you give. I've noticed the parallel titles, and I...
Dear all, Recently I bought this vinyl record on eBay: Verve Records MGV-15018 Evelyn Waugh Readings from VILE BODIES and HELENA Recorded April 19, 1960,...
An attempt was made to play this LP at the Evelyn Waugh Conference in England last year, or rather an attempt was made to play a cassette transcription of the...
Thank you! The LP is really really good. EW reads beautifully and very artistically, and it's really worth listenning. It would really be a shame if people...
How would people feel about shifting this group to the web site of the Evelyn Waugh Society? http://evelynwaughsociety.org The Society has provided the...
The main benefit of moving the email discussion list to the forums on the EWS site will be improved visibility and accessibility, both for the discussions...
In an article in this week's TLS, Jan Marsh discusses whether Dante G. Rossetti really needed to exhume his wife's coffin from a grave in Highgate Cemetery to...
BBC2 started a series last night called Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture. The first episode covered the period 1911 to 1945 and Bragg tried to explain the...
Chapter 6 of Brian Sewell's recently published autobiography "OUTSIDER" is entitled "National Service as a Squaddie". Here he describes how reading EW nearly...
A brief note to let you know that there's a cost-free way you can help the Evelyn Waugh Society fulfill its mission. The EWS is a member of the Amazon...
Waugh's Handful of Dust makes the Guardian's top 10 list--this week a ranking of dark comedies (or as they put it comic tragedies) put together by Shalom...
In the second episode of this program, Waugh got another look in. At the point where Bragg was talking about the blurring of class distinctions in the 1960s...
In a letter to his wife dated December 10, 1948 Waugh announced that he had managed to secure a meeting with Frances Parkinson Keyes presumably while on a...
In a recent Guardian Top 10s column, novelist Jeffrey Archer chooses Sword of Honour as one of his choices for romans fleuves in English. His selection also...
In his preface to the American edition (1946) of Edmund Campion, Waugh states that he was "privileged to use a great accumulation of notes made by a Father at...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01bfl4x/Castle_Commando/ The linked program is a documentary about the WWII commandos and their specialized training. It...
In today's Observer 15 novelists were asked to name the books they had reread the most. The Great Gatsby was the one most frequently named. Hilary Mantel...
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The new film by Whit Stillman, Damsels in Distress , contains a reference to Evelyn Waugh. There is one brief scene in a collegiate English class, where...
John Gray, reviewing Jonathan Haidt's recent *The Righteous Mind* in the latest TNR, briefly mentions Waugh: THIS IS A USEFUL reminder that the modern Western...
Waugh loved moral absolutes. His heartbreak at their demise is visible in his Sword of Honour trilogy. I wonder what he would think of the England of today...
I picked up a Men’s Health at the library, flipped through it, and saw a side bar asking Stephen King to pick the best books that run 1000 pages. EW’s...
To continue this old thread, I just noticed on amazon.co.uk, that EW’s books will be released on Kindle on 31 May. The wife and I bought our kids Kindle...
