As many of you know by now, the Waugh Conference originally scheduled for October 2006 has been postponed until the second half of June 2007. It will still be...
Jeff Manley has helpfully provided the websites for two Waugh-related programs about to be broadcast on BBC Four. "Fathers and Sons," based on Alexander...
... The audio interview is wonderful; Waugh was nothing if not candid! Do y'all have any other links to similar interviews which I've missed in the past? Vicki...
... Perhaps everyone has seen these already, but if you go to An Evelyn Waugh Website, under "Links," and click on "Waugh in His Own Words," you will find...
... the ... No, I had read/heard none of the interviews; thank you kindly for the links. I was, naturally, pleased to learn that Waugh read Knox both for...
... the ... both ... reference ... Knox, ... beyond. ... Of course, Knox' world-wide reputation precedes hime. my nomination for inclusion with Waugh And...
Distinguished group members: Has anyone read, or have plans to read, 'The Moral Imagination' - Gertrude Himmelfarb's latest? I have never read her before but...
... Dear Victoria- Thank you for your post. ... It sounds as though Ms. Himmelfarb is confusing Knox with Phillips: very slatternly. ... In the shallow times...
... There's a rather bad book on the subject, Waugh on Women (1985), by Jacqueline McDonnell. It's been many years since I read it, but McDonnell's basic...
... but ... women ... Mr Wilson, It's really rather ironic as Waugh, it has always seemed to me, especially from reading his correspondence, loved women, but...
... Mr Russell, Thank you for your thoughts; I was in a rush to make dinner before so did not reply at length. ... One of the more delightful aspects of the...
While watching 'Fathers and Sons', I noted that Alexander Waugh made a brief but uncomplimentary reference to American literature, during a scene in the...
Professor Emeritus Colin Baker of the UK is writing the biography of a fomer British colonial governor (1909-1998), and he is puzzled by the governor's...
... "Don Gallagher has ... language ... however. ... Nancy Mitford wrote about U and non-U language, in an essay titled "The English Aristocracy", collected in...
In the Independent on Sunday for June 18 an artlcle appears on the occasion of John Betjeman's centenary which occurs this year. This is probably one of many....
". . . that wonderful gift he has for bringing out the startling and alarming and funny in the trivial will be spurred into renewed activity. . ." In many...
... Compton Acres is a "real" place, or at least it has its own website: www.comptonacres.co.uk The place is in Poole, Dorset. The website shows pictures of...
... John, Yes, I see that now. Thanks for the links. It seems that Betjeman was down there on a visit and saw it as a case of just the sort of over the top...
The Evelyn Waugh Conference has been scheduled for 21-23 June 2007 in Montpellier, France. The theme is "Waugh in His World." If you are interested in...
Does anyone know where ONE can find a copy of Nancy Mitford's Wigs on the green? I know she didn't want it published again and so copies are rather rare, but...
Penguin Books has selected what it considers the 'best' 100 of its classics series on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first publication of a...
In my previous post I misstated the nature of the selection. It was the Times staff, not Penguin who selected the top 100. The 20 categories appear on...
In a review of the republication of John Betjeman's letters in the Guardian newspaper (or possibly the Observer, but on the Guardian's website) John Saumarez...
... I've still got this wrong. The selection is by Penguin, as I first thought, not the Times. There seems to be a smaller selection by the Times, but the...
There's a review in this week's Spectator about a recent history of Eton College. The reviewer leads off with some EW quotes on the subject of Eton. These...
I found the reference to Eton by Waugh and it is indeed in Anthony Powell's Memoirs v. IV, The Strangers All Are Gone, p.40. As it turns out it involves a...
