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Academic Roundup: 2020-2021
The following articles and reviews have appeared in academic journals for the period 2020-21 (2019 in one case) and have not been previously posted. The summaries of articles come (except as noted) from an academic library search service and those … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Articles, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe
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Waugh and the Clothes Press
A new print-only publication the Valet Magazine carries a feature-length article entitled “Waugh’s Last Hat”. This is written by Waugh biographer and weblogger Duncan McLaren. As usual, Duncan combines his scholarship and wit in describing Waugh’s sartorial history. He includes … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Basil Seal Rides Again, Newspapers
Tagged clothes, Duncan McLaren, Valet Magazine
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Profile in Hatred: Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron
Biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers has written a biographical profile of travel writer Robert Byron, with particular reference to the mutual hate – love – hate relationship between Byron and Evelyn Waugh. This appears in the online journal The … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Byron, The Article
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Italian Biographical Sketch of Waugh
The Italian online religious journal Radio Spada has published a feature-length illustrated article containing a thumbnail biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by Luca Fumagalli who frequently writes on English literary subjects generally and Waugh specifically in that paper. The … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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Scott-King’s Modern Latin
In these days of preparation for the resumption of schooling in some form, The Epoch Times has posted an article asking whether parents should be signing up their children for Latin lessons. This is written by Jeff Minick, who opens … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Latin, Philip Spires, The Epoch Times
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A Buyer’s Market for Quennell and Connolly
Duncan McLaren has aded another article about Evelyn Waugh’s interest in Anthony Powell’s novel cycle Dance to the Music of Time. In this one, Evelyn and Nancy Mitford continue their discussion of Powell’s books, focussing on the second in the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Discussions, Humo(u)r, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell, Cyril Connolly, Duncan McLaren, Peter Quennell
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Peter Quennell: Reviewer and Rival
Two recent articles by Duncan McLaren have been devoted to Peter Quennell. Waugh had developed a particular dislike of Quennell (similar to that he had of other literary critics such as Alan Pryce-Jones and Edmund Wilson). The acquaintanceship between Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Festivals, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren
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New Yorker’s “Waugh Stories”
The New Yorker has reposted its 2007 article entitled “Waugh Stories”. This apparently began life as a review of Alexander Waugh’s 2004 book Fathers and Sons but grew into something more ambitious in which the reviewer Joan Acocella launches into … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Articles, Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Newspapers
Tagged Joan Acocella, New Yorker, Private Eye Diary
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Mary Lygon Profiled
An article was recently posted on the website RoyalFoibles,com devoted to the life and, more particularly, the unhappy marriage of Waugh’s friend Mary Lygon. This is entitled “F****d Up Royal, or in this case Imperial, Marriages #49”. But don’t be … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Mary Lygon, RoyalFoibles.com, Vsevolod Romanov
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Waugh’s Collage
In a recent article in the Indian paper National Herald, reporter Mrinal Pande refers to a collage created by Evelyn Waugh in 1935 which is mentioned without citation in the writings of Graham Greene. This is in an article entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Letters, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged collage, Graham Greene, Mrinal Pande, National Herald (India)
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