![]() I recommend it now almost as boldly as Waugh himself did, partly because it’s so little known or read. Sara’s notebook from the HRC archives in Texas. Thinking for the Introduction came much later. I started work on the manuscript, tracing variants. I had never contemplated serious research on Waugh, however, certainly not of the kind necessitated by an edition this comprehensive, and was aware of how much work I would have to do (though blissfully ignorant of how long it would take me). ![]() I had read and enjoyed many of his novels, of course, and, thanks to being taught ‘A’ Level English by an ex-lawyer, had the structure of the Sword of Honour trilogy more or less by heart still. When I joined the Complete Works project some years ago, I did so as an editor of contemporary texts – rather than a Waugh scholar. Waugh’s Helena, directing a dig beneath ‘a westward slope of the hill of Golgotha’, refuses to let the workmen searching for the holy relics rest on the night before 3 May, and their labour is rewarded by the time the sun rises. I write as editor of Waugh’s own fictional celebration, Helena, published in 1950 and due out as volume 11 of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh later this year. Photo by Maisie Clark.įor most of Waugh’s lifetime, the Catholic Church honoured Helena in the Feast of the Finding of the True Cross, celebrated on this day, 3 May. ![]() St Peter’s Basilica, home of Andrea Bolgi’s well-known statue of St Helena. ![]()
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