Following a research visit to the Harry Ransom Center, CWEW editor of Waugh’s Helena, Sara Haslam, reflects on her illuminating experience. I spent two very happy weeks in the HRC archives in April 2018, working on my edition of Helena. I was unprepared for two things: firstly how much difference it would make […]
Waugh and Words
An Oxford Quarrel: Evelyn Waugh and Hugh Trevor-Roper
Ahead of our Waugh’s Enemies event on Monday 25 September, Milena Borden gives a brief history of Waugh’s hostile relationship with Hugh Trevor-Roper – and asks what it tells us about Oxford’s post-war battle of ideas. There is no shortage of writing on the feud between Evelyn Waugh and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Most of it […]
Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector
Over 5-6 May 2017, the Huntington Library hosted a symposium entitled ‘Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector’. The gathering was made possible through the generous donations of Loren and Frances Rothschild, the Evelyn Waugh Society and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. We had come together to celebrate the Rothchilds’ donation of their own Evelyn Waugh […]
Professor David Bradshaw, 1955-2016
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project is deeply sad to announce the untimely passing of our Co-Investigator, David Bradshaw. David had been ill with cancer for some months. Below are some personal memories of David from members of the CWEW team. From Barbara Cooke: I first […]
Evelyn Waugh at the Huntington
We have had to expand the Waugh Corner lately, to make room for our esteemed new friends at the Huntington Library, California. Working with the Evelyn Waugh Society and the Rothschild Foundation, the Huntington has kindly agreed to host the two-day symposium Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector from 5-6 May 2017. The rationale for the symposium is […]
Modern Classics: A Frost in May (14th)
Our Saturday book group is now reading its way through writers Evelyn Waugh admired, or whose themes connect with his. Next up is Antonia White, who Waugh considered one of the best novelists of the time. White’s debut A Frost in May (1933) is a semi-autobiographical account of a young girl’s convent school education. […]
Evening Waugh: Waugh in Abyssinia, 23 May
Join us at Fingerprints Delicafé to discuss Waugh in Abyssinia, a controversial account of Mussolini’s 1930s Ethiopian campaign which reflects a recent Catholic convert’s enthusiasm for all things Italian. Waugh reported on the conflict from Abyssinia for the Daily Mail, the only British paper to take Mussolini’s side. When: Monday 23 May, 7pm-9pm […]
Manuscripts as Memorials
The following guest post is kindly supplied by Andrew W. Mellon fellow Dr Naomi Milthorpe. In my first Waugh and Words post I raised some questions about what the collections at different research archives can reveal for Waugh scholars and enthusiasts. I’m interested in how each collection illuminates a different aspect of Waugh; why Waugh […]
Evelyn Waugh, Cynic?
The following guest post is kindly supplied by Andrew W. Mellon fellow Dr Naomi Milthorpe. In early December 2015 I took up a Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library in California, to work on a project rather ambitiously titled “Waugh and the Library.” Having spent time researching Waugh’s writing and book collecting using the archives […]
Evening Waugh: Decline and Fall ***NEW DATE***
An illustration from Decline and Fall The lovely people at Fingerprints have very kindly made their café available to us to start a new evening Waugh Book Group. Join us as we begin at the beginning with Waugh’s first novel, the public school farce Decline and Fall. You can read what other groups have said about the […]
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