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Apr 25, 2024 · Son of the novelist E. Waugh, his own first novel, The Foxglove Saga (1960), was written after recovering from a serious accident with a machine gun in an army training exercise, and is based on his experiences of illness and of school and military life.
May 11, 2024 · The small village down in the vale on the Taunton-to-Minehead road is where Evelyn Waugh lived in the 1950s. He regularly frequented the Farmers Arms with various members of the London literati, as did his writer son, Auberon.
May 11, 2024 · Woolf and Waugh were only two of Arlen’s literary detractors. When Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, appeared in 1926, the author was incensed that reviewers saw an influence of The Green Hat, particularly in his character of the aristocratic Englishwoman Brett Ashley. …
May 1, 2024 · Oxford University has announced a seminar of interest that may be of interest to Waugh scholars. It is open to current members of the university and is entitled “Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave.”
May 3, 2024 · Majoring in English and writing for a student magazine at Oxford, Brown was drawn into the orbit of literary figures, among them Auberon Waugh, who secured publication of her writing in the weekly New Statesman.
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May 14, 2024 · Most famous now as the author of Brideshead Revisited, a romantic treatment of God’s work in people’s lives, he was one of the last century’s Catholic writers who was also a major writer in the wider world. G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene and J.R.R. Tolkien were others.
3 days ago · In the 1980s, Auberon Waugh became editor. For fourteen years Waugh led the magazine and gave it the high profile it has today, including bringing on board Willie Rushton as cover illustrator.
