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Evelyn Waugh Periodical Collection: Finding Aid
609462  
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Table of contents What's This?
  • Overview of the Collection
  • Access
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical Note
  • Scope and Content
  • Related materials in the Huntington Library
  • Arrangement
  • Indexing Terms

  • Overview of the Collection

    Title: Evelyn Waugh Periodical Collection
    Dates (inclusive): 1923-2010
    Bulk dates: 1930-1965
    Collection Number: 609462
    Creator: Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Extent: 101 items in 7 boxes
    Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Rare Books Department
    1151 Oxford Road
    San Marino, California 91108
    Phone: (626) 405-2191
    Email: reference@huntington.org
    URL: http://www.huntington.org
    Abstract: This collection contains 101 issues of periodicals with content written by or about the British author Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) between 1923 and 2010, with the bulk of the items dating from 1930 to 1965. 76 of the items contain articles or stories by Waugh. The remaining 25 items contain reviews of his books and articles about him. More than fifty periodical titles are represented, ranging from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines in England and the United States.
    Language: English.
    Note:
    Finding aid last updated on November 7, 2014.

    Access

    Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

    Administrative Information

    Publication Rights

    The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item]. Evelyn Waugh Periodical Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

    Provenance

    Gift of Loren and Frances Rothschild, December 27, 2013.

    Biographical Note

    Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), was a British satirical writer whose published works included Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Sword of Honour and The Loved One, as well as several travel books. Waugh's conversion to Catholicism in 1930 introduced Catholic themes and subjects to his writing including, perhaps his most well-known work, Brideshead Revisited. Waugh was married twice and had seven children, including the journalist Auberon Waugh; on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, Waugh died of heart failure at his home Combe Florey in Somerset.

    Scope and Content

    This collection contains 101 issues of periodicals with content written by or about the British author Evelyn Waugh between 1923 and 2010, with the bulk of the items dating from 1930 to 1965. 76 of the items contain articles or stories by Waugh. The remaining 25 items contain reviews of his books and articles about him. More than fifty periodical titles are represented, ranging from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines in England and the United States.
    The collection inventory below contains entries listing the periodical title, volume and issue number, date, publisher and publisher location, article title, page numbers, author of the Waugh-related pieces, and, when applicable, the item's number in A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh (Whitston Publishing Company, 1986) by Robert Murray Davis, et al.

    Related materials in the Huntington Library

    These materials form a subset of the Papers of Evelyn Waugh, with printed materials held in the Rare Books Department and manuscript materials held in the Manuscript Department.

    Arrangement

    This collection is arranged by size (small, medium, and large) and chronologically.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.  

    Subjects

    Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.
    Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 -- Bibliography.

    Forms/Genres

    Journals (periodicals)
    Magazines (periodicals)
    Periodicals

    Additional Entries

    Jackson, Crispin
    Rothschild, Loren, former owner
    Wilson, John Howard, 1961-
    Chatto & Windus (Firm)
    Commonweal Publishing Co.
    Esquire, inc.
    Fox, Jones & Co.
    Hearst Corporation
    Hearst Magazines Inc.
    Hulton Press
    Rumford Press
    Saturday Review Associates
    Shenval Press
    Time, inc.