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1 day ago · Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born on 28 October 1903 to Arthur Waugh (1866–1943) and Catherine Charlotte Raban (1870–1954), into a family with English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Huguenot origins.
Jul 3, 2024 · Evelyn Waugh (born October 28, 1903, London, England—died April 10, 1966, Combe Florey, near Taunton, Somerset) was an English writer regarded by many as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day.
Jul 18, 2024 · Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powells' visions of modernity differed in crucial respects, but taken together their work offers a vivid chronicle of Britain's secularising society caught between the ways of the new and the old.
5 days ago · A composer, opera and literary critic, cartoonist, writer and sometime publisher, he was also keeper of what remained (after the sale of his grandfather’s library to the University of Texas in 1968) of the family archive, and general editor of a planned 43-volume edition of Evelyn Waugh’s complete works, published by Oxford University Press.
Jul 4, 2024 · It was perhaps the last question ever put to Evelyn Waugh. Whose death, when it came — on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, soon after returning home from morning Mass, celebrated by his great friend, Jesuit Father Philip Caraman, in the liturgical language he loved best, i.e., Latin — could scarcely have been happier.
Jul 3, 2024 · Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1945. An acclaimed TV miniseries of the same name, starring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, and Diana Quick, was based on the novel in 1981.
Jul 3, 2024 · The latest volume of the Society’s thrice yearly journal Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 54.3 (Winter 2023) has been posted. Here is a description of its contents by the Society’s Secretary, Jamie Collinson: This edition features a brilliant essay by Tim Nau on the names Waugh gave his characters.
