http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/ The Evelyn Waugh Society Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:27:48 GMT Robert Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/621 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/621 There are at least two errors, though I am not sure whether they are the author's or the reviewer's. First, there is the implication that EW was a member of Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:45:08 GMT Seth C. Holler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/620 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/620 Micah Mattix reviews Michael Brennan, *Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith, and Family:* Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:34:34 GMT gwynpe7 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/619 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/619 Today's Daily Telegraph - 15 April - has an English grammar test. One of the tests is to give the correct gender to the name Evelyn. Look at: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:34:23 GMT jeffreymanley123 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/618 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/618 In today's NY Times Book Review an interviewer asked Clive James what books he enjoys rereading: "Are you a rereader? What books do you find yourself Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:39:26 GMT Jeffrey Manley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/617 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/617 I forgot to mention that Kane appeared on a BBC quiz program (may have been Mastermind) about a year or so ago and did very well on his special subject--Evelyn Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:39:14 GMT Gwyn Price-Evans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/616 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/616 I liked this review because of its light touch.  It's pitched for the Spectator's imagined milieu: the relaxed country house weekend.  A different Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:13:59 GMT myerstyson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/615 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/615 Dang. I now wish I still had my VPN. :( Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:13:45 GMT Jeffrey Manley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/614 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/614 This week's Spectator has a review by British comedian and Waugh wonk Russell Kane on a reissue of Selina Hastings' biography of Waugh. See link. He sets up Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:19:05 GMT Robert Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/613 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/613 George Orwell defended Wodehouse in almost the same terms as EW. ... me?"  It was Waugh who made the characterization but it appeared at a later time than Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:02:35 GMT Jeffrey Manley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/612 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/612 BBC4 last night transmitted an excellent docudrama entitled Wodehouse in Exile. As its title suggests, it describes the internment of PG Wodehouse by the Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:49:06 GMT Seth C. Holler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/611 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/611 I'm rereading A HANDFUL OF DUST for a lecture this week, and I recall Waugh said the novel was "humanist, and contained everything he had to say about Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:56:11 GMT Robert Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/610 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/610 Alan Pryce-Jones: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-pen-is-mightier-7570 A few anecdotes are worth the visit. RMD Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:53:27 GMT Gwyn Price-Evans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/609 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/609 I have heard Menzies pronounced Mensies with the familiar Z sound (as with an Australian post-war Prime Minister) and Mengies with a hard G as with Major Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:23:48 GMT Mick Dempsey http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/608 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/608 So shall we have a go at Grant-Menzies? I’ve heard Menzies pronounced as “Ming” and “Mingies”. Mick. From: Evelyn_Waugh@yahoogroups.com Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:36:31 GMT Gwyn Price-Evans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/607 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Waugh/message/607 I once worked for an advertising agency called Rupert Chetwynd.  The pronunciation of the second name at the time that I was there was Chet-wind - one word