The Evelyn Waugh Society is also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/evelynwaughsoc. The Waugh Society is providing RSS feed: http://evelynwaughsociety.org/feed. And the Waugh Society’s web site has added opportunities for threaded discussions: http://evelynwaughsociety.org/forums/. Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest The Eighth Annual Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest is sponsored by Evelyn Waugh Studies. Undergraduates in any part of the world are eligible. The editorial board will judge submissions and award a prize of $250. Essays up to 5000 words on any aspect of the life or work of Evelyn Waugh should be submitted to Dr. John H. Wilson, preferably by e-mail at [email protected], or by post to Department of English, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven PA 17745, USA. The deadline is 31 December 2012. Intermodernism in Paperback Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain (2009), edited by Kristin Bluemel, has been published in paperback by Edinburgh University Press, and it is available from Columbia University Press for $35 per copy. For a review, see “Utopian Hopes,” by Laura Mooneyham White, EWNS 42.1 (Spring 2011). Henley Literary Festival Selina Hastings spoke about Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford at the Henley Literary Festival on 30 September 2011. Daisy Waugh, daughter of Auberon Waugh and granddaughter of Evelyn, spoke about her most recent novel, Last Dance with Valentino, on 2 October 2011. For more information, see http://www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/hlf_2011_sml.pdf. Comedian’s Knowledge of Evelyn Waugh Wins Contest Russell Kane chose the life and novels of Evelyn Waugh as his specialist subject and won BBC TV’s Mastermind on 11 November 2011. Architecture of Downside Abbey “Amazing grace,” Colin Amery’s review of Downside Abbey: An Architectural History, edited by Dom Aidan Bellenger, is available at The Spectator. Inscribed Copy of Decline and Fall Greyfriars Books of Colchester in England sold a rare copy of Decline and Fall, inscribed to Osbert Sitwell.
Seventieth Anniversary of Crete Evelyn Waugh was cited in an article by Nigel Richardson, "Crete, Greece: Ghostly soldiers on the Battle of Crete anniversary," published in the Daily Telegraph on 18 May 2011.
Featured in Wikipedia "Evelyn Waugh" was the featured article on the main page of Wikipedia on 26 May 2011.
Lor d Onslow, 1938-2011 Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow, the seventh Earl of Onslow, passed away on 14 May 2011.