Fiendish Friday Quiz

Brenda Last: worst mother in literature?

Fiendish Friday Quiz #5: Answers

Now, as you know, all our Evelyn Waugh Newsletter/Studies are available online – so I could just direct the interested to Volume 24 No 2 where, alongside the answers you’ve all been waiting for, you will also find a somewhat surprising article on Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder’s relationship and a thought-provoking discussion of literacy […]

Fiendish Friday Quiz #5

Fiendish Friday Quiz #5

You’d be forgiven for thinking things had gone awfully quiet over in the Waugh Corner. Far from it. We are wiping the virtual sweat from our digital brows hourly as we get the main project website off the ground – another week or so should do it. Until then, however – try this on for […]

From Waugh's Remote People (1931)

Waugh Geography Quiz: Answers

Here we go quiz fans… A sticky moment there when these answers did not appear in the Newsletter following the geography quiz and I thought the Waugh Corner might be obliged to reconstruct them from scratch… happily however they materialised in Volume 21, No. 1. Phew. ANSWERS TO “A WAUGH GEOGRAPHICAL QUIZ” By Donald Greene […]

Fiendish Friday Quiz #3: Geography

Fiendish Friday Quiz #3: Geography

 In Autumn 1986 Donald Greene, inspired by  Thomas Gribble to find something that would really tax the erudite members of the Evelyn Waugh Society, turned to geography and asked the following fiendish questions. How many can you get? Answers next week. Here in the Waugh Corner, all cataloguing is now done (hurrah!) and all back […]

Fiendish Friday Quiz #2: Answers

Fiendish Friday Quiz #2: Answers

So… it’s not Friday. But here are the answers to Thomas Gribble’s second fiendish quiz nonetheless. Let us know how you do, and whether you’d like another this Friday. There’s more where this came from, and they don’t get any easier!

Interpretations of Brideshead Revisited

Fiendish Friday Quiz #1: Answers

Drumroll please… answers to Thomas Gribble’s first Waugh quiz can be found below. Let us know how you got on, then try out #2.

Fiendish Friday Quiz #2

Fiendish Friday Quiz #2

Thomas Gribble’s quiz proved so popular that another soon appeared in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter. Back in the eighties, Waugh fans had to wait months between installments. In the Waugh Corner of 2014 we are making you wait a week for what can only be our own perverse enjoyment. Remember, no googling, and answers next […]

Fiendish Friday Quiz

Fiendish Friday Quiz

As part of our digitisation work here in the Waugh Corner, we will soon be making the entire back catalogue of the Evelyn Waugh Society’s publication, Evelyn Waugh Newsletter/Evelyn Waugh Studies, available through Leicester’s Special Collections Online. The newsletter has been running since 1967 and was originally edited by the eminent scholar Paul A. Doyle, who posted it […]

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