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Category Archives: Fiction
Easter Week Roundup
British journalist Eleanor Doughty, well known to our readers, has made a revisit to Castle Howard. What she finds is described in an article in the Times newspaper. Here is an excerpt: There is nowhere on earth like Castle Howard. … Continue reading
Piers Court Update
A notice posted several weeks ago indicates that Piers Court, Waugh’s former residence near Dursley, Gloucestershire, has been repurposed into high-end countryside accommodations. Here is a description of what is on offer: Piers Court is a unique and enchanting English … Continue reading
Tax Day (USA) Roundup
–Writing in the Times newspaper, Johanna Thomas-Corr comments on Queen Camilla’s appearance in public wearing her wedding dress. Thomas-Corr thinks that this is a good practice and one in which she herself has engaged. Here’s the conclusion: …I often wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Financial Times, Tatler, The Mitfords, The Spectator, Times newspaper
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Roundup: Single-Sex Schools, The Mitfords, and Tales from Amazonia
–In last week’s Sunday Telegraph, Rowan Pelling had an article entitled “When single-sex schools die, will we all be poorer?” Here is an extract: …I can’t help wondering how the shelves of children will look in 20 years after all … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Labels, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Tatler, The Mitfords
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End of Wintertime (UK) Roundup
–A review by Dylan Neri in The Spectator about a book entitled Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken opens with this: There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Internet, Interviews, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Anglican Samizdat, Anthony Powell, Apollo, The Critic, The Spectator
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Spring Equinox Roundup
—The Economist has an article about the updating of the “basket of goods” put together by the UK’s Office for National Statistics for the purpose of measuring inflation. Here is an excerpt: To read the contents list of the basket … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, Translations
Tagged Liberties, The Economist
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St Patrick’s Day Roundup
–Ben Lawrence writes in the Daily Telegraph that “The arts are now terrified of God”. Here are the opening paragraphs: “We don’t do God.” Such was Alastair Campbell’s Rottweiler-like shutdown of journalists asking about the faith of his then-boss Tony … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, The Express, The Fleming Foundation, The Guardian
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WSJ at Castle Howard
The Wall Street Journal carries a story about how the Howard family have over the years renovated Castle Howard. The article is by J S Marcus and the photographs by Joanna Yee. Here’s an excerpt: …The Lake Sitting Room is … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Wall Street Journal
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Daylight Savings Time (US) Roundup
–The New York Review of Books has posted a review by Martin Filler entitled “Build Britannia.” This is about a book entitled Interwar British Architecture, 1919-1939 by Gavin Stamp. Here’s an excerpt: …A visceral distrust of European Modernism–emblematic of British … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Diario de Sevilla, New York Review of Books, The Times
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