Wedding Season
Eighty-six years ago today Evelyn Waugh married his first wife Evelyn Gardner at St Paul’s in Portman Square. The whole operation was carried off with characteristic nonchalance – on the 12th December 1927 Waugh wrote the following in his diary: ‘Dined with Evelyn at the Ritz. Proposed marriage. Inconclusive.’ The next day Gardner put Waugh […]
Evelyn Waugh and His Circle: Reading and Editing the Complete Works
As many of you might know already, in 2015 we are planning a glitzy international Evelyn Waugh conference here in Leicester. Richard III is SO 2013. If you’d like to present at the conference, please read on for the Call for Papers: Call for Papers The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project invites submissions for […]
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 […]
Evelyn Waugh Newsletter in Special Collections
Well, it’s taken a while but we finally did it – the entire back-catalogue of the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter (1967-1989), Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies (1990-2010) and Evelyn Waugh Studies (2011-) is now available from Leicester special collections online. As well as being the source of the Waugh Corner’s Fiendish Friday Quizzes, the collection […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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