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I remember teaching English at Seabrook
No full textIn this "I remember" memoir, Isabell Waugh, a former teacher at Seabrook, compares and constrasts the different groups of students she taught. She remembers that native-born American teenagers tended to be more concerned with athletics and social activities, than academic matters. In comparison, Estonian and Japanese parents did not tolerate low academic performance, so students from the two groups often competed intensely with each other for academic achievement and recognition. Isabelle recalls that the Estonians were, in general, more sophisticated and better educated. Most of the children knew 3-5 languages, and were more advanced in math and science. She sensed that some Estonian parents felt that their homes at Seabrook were temporary, and that they would be returning to Estonia at some point. The Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center has been soliciting current and past residents of Seabrook Farms for an "I remember" project. Residents are asked to create narratives regarding their experiences at Seabrook Farms. These memories help preserve the history and multi-cultural heritage of Seabrook Farms
The Rise and Progress Of Religion in the Soul : Illustrated In a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses, Suited to Persons of every Character and Circumstance ; With A Devout Meditation or Prayer added to each Chapter / By P. Doddridge, D. D.
No full textVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: London: Printed for J. Waugh,at the Turk's Head in Gracechurch-Street; and J. Buckland, at the Buck in Pater-noster Row
Letter to Cleland from L.C. Waugh
No full textCanoscan 80000f 6000DPI TIFF scanner used, edited using Photoshop v7.Letter from L.C. Waugh to J.S. Clelan
Court of inquiry: additional Waugh bibliography
No full text[Extract] Bibliographers have overlooked a review-with-reminiscences that contains intriguing information about Waugh's being the subject of a military Court of Inquiry: viz. Bernard Fergusson’s "Gentlemen at Arms,” a review of To the War with Waugh, by John St John, Sunday Times, 6 May 1973: 40
The Lygons, the Flytes and Evelyn Waugh
No full text[Extract] Paula Byrne's Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead scores several significant breakthroughs, and I warmly commend it to general readers as well as Waugh enthusiasts. It follows hard on the heels of Jane Mulvagh's equally interesting Madresfield: One Home, One Family, One Thousand Years. The books are complementary. Byrne's Mad World is a biography of Waugh that works outward from his close friendship with the Lygons of Madresfield. Mulvagh's Madresfield begins and ends with (unremarkable) chapters about Waugh; but it is essentially a fascinating history of Madresfield—a country house with a Tudor core and enveloping Neo-Gothic additions—and of the Lygon (earlier and in the USA, Ligon) family. The Lygons, who date from the Norman Conquest, have lived uninterruptedly at Madresfield since the sixteenth century. Because the family has been involved in most of the significant developments of the last four hundred years, their story illuminates every period of English history since Henry VIII. Family divisions over the Reformation; involvement in plots against Mary Tudor; the role of the house and family during the Civil War; a book written by a Lygon about Barbados that explains the wealth pouring into England from the sugar trade and slavery; a younger son's apprenticeship to the London Grocers Company (which provided money that saved the family); a disputed inheritance from a very distant connection, Jennens, which brought the Lygons sufficient wealth to buy (for £10,000) the Beauchamp earldom (the interminable legal wrangles over this inheritance inspired Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Dickens’s Bleak House); patronage of the Arts and Crafts Movement, with its social implications, heavy financial backing for the Tractarians and deep involvement with Edward Elgar; late Victorian and Edwardian Liberal politics. A more knowledgeable reader might be unimpressed by all this historical information. I was already acquainted with most of the topics raised, but Mulvagh's revelations proved as riveting as they were enlightening
Happy Surprises: the novel as art, as revealed in Evelyn Waugh's reviews 1928-1931
No full text[Extract] A 1930 advertisement for Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies clevery portrays the novel as a 'tragedy in which comic relief overwhelmingly predominates' and goes on to hail this second novel as 'an important stage in Evelyn Waugh's development as a serious artist'.¹ Now, in 1930 many readers would have been surprised to see the accolade, 'serious artist', applied to a young comic novelist, and Waugh himself apparently repudiated the title when he described Vile Bodies to Harold Acton as 'a welter of sex and snobbery written siimply in the hope of selling some copies.'² Added reason to doubt the 'seriousness' of his art in 1930 emerges thirty-five years later when Waugh writes: '[Vile Bodies] was a totally unplanned novel. I had the facility at the age of25 to sit down at my table, set a few characters on the move, write 3000 words a day and note with surprise what happened next.'³ He even produced a witness to his 'surprise' at what his characters got up to: a young naval officer was present when Waugh blurted out his discovery that Angela Lyne of Put Out More Flags had been drinking.⁴ On a more sober note, in a very polite letter responding to Frederick Stopp's analysis of Men at Arms,⁵ Waugh writes: 'so many ofthe points you make were hitherto unrecognized by myself [...] Men at Arms was written [...] instinctively [...] You have revealed to me a great deal that must have occurred in my subconscious mind [...] much of the counterpoint was unconscious on my part.'⁶ And he teased the public by declaring, for example, that he didn't think it 'clever to write brilliant novels. Just a trick like balancing a penny on a pin'.
Additional Waugh bibliography
No full text[Extract] Primary:
Evelyn Waugh, “A Unique Friendship,” review of Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith: The Story of a Friendship, by Robert Gathorne-Hardy. English Review Magazine, January 1950: 60-61.
More Reviews of Robbery under Law:
Many aeons ago I confidently stated that, because World War II was looming, Robbery under Law received few reviews. Later I found more among cuttings in Frederick J. Stopp’s papers in the Cambridge University Library. Most of the cuttings lacked page numbers and other details, but all those listed here are traceable by the information provided. (If someone living close to the British Newspaper Library at Colindale were to look up the page numbers, how grateful a future bibliographer would be.) A number of very brief newspaper notices and reviews with too few details are not included here
Oral History Interview: Judy Waugh
No full textThis interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Judy Waugh was an employee of the Huntington Owens-Illinois glass plant. She discusses: her employment history; her employment at the plant; seniority at the plant; individuals such as Opal Mann; church; trying to find a job after working at the plant; attending Marshall University; work shifts; and other topics.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1472/thumbnail.jp
"Beefsteak Mind" and "Greatest Sonneteer since Shakespeare": Evelyn Waugh, Marie Stopes and Lord Alfred Douglas
No full text[Extract] On 25 May 1939, Evelyn Waugh wrote to Marie Stopes.[1] Coming across a reference to his letter in a catalogue, I imagined a sharp missive about birth control or Black Mischief, for Waugh lampoons Stopes (the then leading advocate of birth control) in Black Mischief, and Stopes eagerly joined in The Tablet’s condemnation of the novel. Some years later, in 1943, Stopes would attack, and Waugh defend, Catholic schools. Imagine my surprise (as they say) when Waugh’s 1939 letter turned out to be a polite note agreeing to put his name to a petition organized by Stopes seeking a civil list pension for Lord Alfred Douglas, “Bosie” of Oscar Wilde fame.
Stopes’s papers reveal that Lord Alfred had been living on a small allowance from a kinsman, which the kinsman could no longer afford. Lord Alfred faced destitution. Stopes, a woman of advanced views, was nevertheless a close friend and voluminous correspondent of Lord Alfred, a Catholic and conservative far to the Right of Evelyn Waugh. Stopes believed that Lord Alfred’s contribution to English literature was such as to warrant a civil list pension, and she set about trying to persuade the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, to provide one. Part of the campaign involved enlisting eminent literary figures to testify to Lord Alfred’s outstanding contribution to English poetry. At this period, as is well known, the dominant influences on English poetry were Eliot and Auden, whereas Lord Alfred’s sonnets were metrical, musical and nineteenth-century in theme; in short, highly unfashionable. His principal literary admirers, like Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, then Professor of English Literature at Oxford, came from the Men of Letters generation; but some Moderns, like Virginia Woolf, signed the petition. The argument was that Lord Alfred’s poetry was a permanently valuable contribution to the national literature. Much was made of the fact, if it is a fact, that he was the only English poet for a century whose entire corpus the French had thought worthwhile to translate
Representations of adultery and regeneration in selected novels of Ford, Lawrence, Waugh and Greene
No full textThis thesis is an examination of how the themes of adultery and regeneration are interwoven and explored by selected English novelists in the first half of the twentieth century. It is essential to establish that Ford, Lawrence, Waugh and Greene do not adhere to the ‘archetypal’ pattern of the adultery novel established in the nineteenth century and, in fact, turn that pattern on its head.
Ford’s The Good Soldier and Parade’s End provide two differing perspectives. The first uses adultery as a metaphor for the disintegration of English society, mirroring the social disintegration that accompanied the First World War; Parade’s End, however, presents an adulterous relationship as being a regenerative force in the post-war society. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover also uses an adulterous relationship as a means of addressing the need for social, and national, regeneration in the inter-war years.
Waugh’s A Handful of Dust presents a woman’s adultery as the ruin of not only a good man, but also civilisation in general; Brideshead Revisited is more religious in tone and traces the spiritual regeneration of its central character, whose conversion, ironically, is made possible through his adulterous relationship. Similarly, Greene’s The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair portray the process of spiritual regeneration; in both novels this movement towards salvation is intertwined with an exploration of adulterous love.
The ultimate question probed in this thesis is how the twentieth century novel of adultery overturns the traditional literary approach to the subject. Adulterous unions and illegitimate children are no longer presented as being exclusively socially destabilising or subversive in these novels; most intriguingly significant is that, in some of these novels, the illegitimate child becomes a symbol of hope, and, indeed, of regeneration
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