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Time magazine correction: Evelyn Waugh was not a woman

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Time magazine has had to issue a correction to an article about the 100 most read female authors in colleges. They conceded that "the original version of this story included Evelyn Waugh, who is a man". Professor Valentine Cunningham, from Oxford University, explains the long history of the author being confused for someone of the opposite sex.

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