Cover image for the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Vile Bodies

Book Group: Vile Bodies

  On Saturday the 17th, taking refuge from the glorious May sunshine, the Evelyn Waugh Book Group met at Leicester Central Library to discuss Vile Bodies, Waugh’s second novel, published in 1930, and significantly, the last novel he wrote before his conversion to Catholicism. Part way through writing Vile Bodies, Waugh’s first wife, Evelyn Gardner, […]

A Certain Glamour: Evelyn Waugh and Nostalgic Fashion

A Certain Glamour: Evelyn Waugh and Nostalgic Fashion

Evelyn Waugh is probably not the first person that comes to mind when you think of dictators of style. But he was not above picking apart the trends of his time – in particular the fashion for nostalgia. In his article ‘Let Us Return to the Nineties: But Not to Oscar Wilde’ originally published in […]

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