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EVELYN WAUGH NEWSLETTER AND STUDIES Vol

New Edition of Four Novels Everyman's Library is bringing out a new edition of four novels, Black Mischief, , , and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. The novels are in a single hardback volume of 622 pages, priced at $25.00. Ann Pasternak Slater provides an introduction of twenty pages. Look for a review in a forthcoming edition of the Newsletter.

BBC Marks Waugh Centenary According to an e-mail received by the editor, the BBC is "working on a documentary to coincide with EW's Centenary." They plan to show "a trilogy of 'Arenas' . . . covering his life but reinvigorate them with ." The BBC is also intending to interview some "Waugh aficionados" in the . The BBC's radio production of , broadcast in March 2003, is available on tape or compact disc for £15.99 plus shipping. Please visit the BBC Shop.

Lady Mosley, 1910-2003 The Hon. Lady Mosley passed away on 11 August 2003. She was 93 years old. She was born the Hon. , the fourth of seven children, several of whom became famous. The eldest child was the Hon. (1904-1973), the novelist and one of 's most faithful correspondents. Diana married the Hon. Bryan Guinness (later Lord Moyne) in 1929. When his marriage broke up that summer, Waugh found a companion in Diana, who had become pregnant. Waugh dedicated his second novel, , and his first travel book, Labels, to Bryan and Diana Guinness, and he acknowledged their "encouragement and hospitality." Diana divorced Bryan in 1934 and married Sir , leader of the British Union of Fascists, in 1936. After the outbreak of war with in 1939, Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley were imprisoned. She and Waugh had drifted apart, but Waugh drew on his memory of her pregnancy in his description of Lucy Simmonds in Work Suspended. Waugh sent a copy of the unfinished novel to Diana in prison. As she worked on her memoirs, (1977), Lady Mosley asked Waugh why their friendship had "petered out." Waugh admitted to having felt "pure jealousy." As Diana "began to enlarge [her] circle," Waugh "couldn't compete or take a humbler place" (Letters of Evelyn Waugh, 638). Lady Mosley is survived by her sister Deborah ("Debo"), the Duchess of Devonshire, and four sons, Jonathan and Desmond Guinness, and Alexander and . Jonathan Guinness, the present Lord Moyne, is Waugh's godson. For more details, please visit An Evelyn Waugh Website.

Claud on Internet 's essay, "A Reminiscence of My Cousin: Evelyn Waugh's Ear Trumpet," appeared on the internet at www.counterpunch.org, though it has since been removed. The essay was originally published in the Atlantic in 1973. It is still available on Totalwaugh (message no. 379)..

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