Evelyn Waugh

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Standard Name: Waugh, Evelyn
Birth Name: Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
EW was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He is remembered not only for his novels but for his prolific journalism, travel writing, biography and autobiography, and for his posthumously published letters and diaries. His resolutely unmodernised Catholicism and his Toryism (more social and romantic than political) were not always beneficial to his work and until well after his death inflicted serious damage to his literary reputation, making him a bugbear to a generally liberal intellectual establishment.

Connections

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Travel Theodora Benson
Not long after this she and her friend Betty Askwith set out together for Greece (which Askwith wanted to visit) and Yugoslavia and Albania (which Benson wanted to visit). The tourist trade was not even...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Over the years, RM published several dozen literary articles in a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and commemorative volumes. She wrote on past and contemporary literary figures, including Leslie Stephen , Stella Benson , Rebecca West
Textual Production Nancy Mitford
Describing NM 's letters as an essential part of her artistic output,
Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, p. various pages.
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her niece Charlotte Mosley has edited two collections: Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, 1993, and The Letters of...
Textual Production Winifred Holtby
WH 's inspiration for the novel came from reports of the coronation of the Emperor of Abyssinia in 1930.
Shaw, Marion, and Winifred Holtby. “Introduction”. Mandoa, Mandoa!, Virago, p. ix - xix.
xi-xii
Evelyn Waugh , who was present at the coronation, based his novel Black Mischief on...
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA 's column for the Times and her articles elsewhere led naturally to further miscellaneous work for and about children. (Evelyn Waugh was mistaken in his unshakable belief that she was the true author...
Textual Features Olivia Manning
The first trilogy draws on OM 's experience of the early years of the Second World War in eastern Europe. In both trilogies, British national concerns are disconcertingly filtered through people whose priorities and loyalties...
Reception Barbara Pym
Another element that makes her hard to place is her comedy. Though her work has been likened to that of Drabble and Lively (both her champions) her place is rather with out-and-out satirists like Angela Thirkell
Reception Elizabeth Jenkins
The book received some appreciative reviews, but there were others which argued that EJ was culpable in her use of real events which were so traceable. The Time and Tide notice (by a reviewer whom...
Publishing Muriel Spark
MS received £100 for it, half as an advance.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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She finished writing in late 1955, but then hit a snag: Macmillan developed cold feet about its being difficult. During this hiatus the proofs...
Publishing Nancy Mitford
NM dedicated her novel The Blessing to Evelyn Waugh .
Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, p. various pages.
xxi, 243, 282-3n3
Publishing Nancy Mitford
The essay was provoked by a scholarly article, Upper Class English Usage, published in an academic journal in 1954 by Professor Alan Ross . The terms U, for upper-class, and Non-U, for...
Author summary Elizabeth Jolley
EJ , writing in the later twentieth century, was called the most comical and disturbing writer working in Australia today.
Bird, Delys, and Brenda Walker, editors. Elizabeth Jolley: New Critical Essays. Angus and Robertson.
back-cover
The author of some fifteen novels as well as plays, poetry, and short stories...
Performance of text Bryony Lavery
A rather different stage adaptation by BL , of Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited, opened as the inaugural production at the newly redeveloped Theatre Royal in York, before going on tour.
Hickling, Alfred. “Brideshead Revisited review—Waugh’s charming men hit the stage in style”. theguardian.com.
Occupation Elizabeth Jane Howard
EJH also free-lanced in journalism and on television. She appeared on discussion programmes about books (which were more plentiful in those days) and was also asked to appear on the political programme Table Talk...
Literary responses Muriel Spark
Evelyn Waugh —whose novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, also about hallucinations, appeared a few months after Spark's—called the book very clever,
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
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sang its praises, and guessed it would be attributed to...

Timeline

4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...

Writing climate item

4 December 1931

The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson , its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson

April 1946 : A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee's...

National or international item

April 1946

A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee 's Labour government visited Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to investigate the feasibility of a large-scale scheme for cultivating groundnuts (peanuts).
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head.

Texts

Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall, 1934.
Waugh, Evelyn. A Little Learning. Chapman and Hall, 1964.
Waugh, Evelyn. Basil Seal Rides Again, or, The Rake’s Regress. Chapman and Hall, 1963.
Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Chapman and Hall, 1932.
Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Little, Brown and Company, 1946.
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall, 1945.
Mitford, Nancy, and Evelyn Waugh. “Critical Materials”. The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996, p. various pages.
Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman, 1928.
Waugh, Evelyn. Helena. Chapman and Hall, 1950.
Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Chapman and Hall, 1952.
Waugh, Evelyn. Officers and Gentlemen. Chapman and Hall, 1955.
Waugh, Evelyn. Officers and Gentlemen. Little, Brown and Company, 1955.
Waugh, Evelyn. “Preface”. Brideshead Revisited, Chapman and Hall, 1960, pp. 9-10.
Waugh, Evelyn. “Preface”. Black Mischief, Chapman and Hall, 1962, p. 10.
Waugh, Evelyn. Put Out More Flags. Chapman and Hall, 1942.
Waugh, Evelyn. Rossetti: His Life and Works. Duckworth, 1928.
Waugh, Evelyn. Scoop. Little, Brown, and Company, 1938.
Waugh, Evelyn. Scoop. Chapman and Hall, 1938.
Waugh, Evelyn. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh. Editor Davie, Michael, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976.
Waugh, Evelyn. The Letters of Evelyn Waugh. Editor Amory, Mark, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980.
Mitford, Nancy, and Evelyn Waugh. The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. Editor Mosley, Charlotte, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
Waugh, Evelyn, and Stuart Boyle. The Loved One. Chapman and Hall, 1948.
Waugh, Evelyn. Unconditional Surrender. Chapman and Hall, 1961.
Waugh, Evelyn. Vile Bodies. Chapman and Hall, 1930.