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Category Archives: Letters
Mother’s Day (US) Roundup
—The Oldie has posted an article by Mark McGinness to mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy on 13 March 1948. In this, he tells the story of her meeting and engagement with Billy Cavendish, Marquess … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Antiques Trade Gazette, Kathleen Kennedy, The Globe and Mail, The Oldie, The Spectator
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Roundup
–Novelist and biographer A N Wilson has published a detailed review of John Betjeman’s recently rebroadcast program Metroland. This appears in a recent issue of the Daily Mail. The BBC rebroadcast was mentioned in the previous Roundup. Wilson who was … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged A N Wilson, City Journal, Daily Mail, Esquire, John Betjeman, New York Review of Books
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Groundhog Day Roundup
—The Economist started the week with a story headed by this discussion of a Waugh novel: Evelyn Waugh, a satirist of pre-war England and of the careless aristocrats who ran it, would have had a field day with the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Com, iNews.co.uk, New Criterion, The Economist, The Oldie, The Spectator, truthdig
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MLK Day Roundup
–The German-language paper Der Standart based in Austria has posted an article about Waugh’s book collecting. This is mostly devoted to a book previously discussed. Here is a translation of the text: You may know the British novelist Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Der Standard, Independent (Dublin), London Review of Books, Norman Mailer, The Critic
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Roundup: Waugh Venues and School Envy
–The American print media have finally discovered the news about the sale of Piers Court. A brief article appears in the New Yorker entitled “For Sale: Evelyn Waugh’s Manor House, 8 BR/24 Acres/1 Waugh-Obsessed Tenant”. This begins with a summary … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Piers Court, Scoop
Tagged Conde Nast Traveller, New Yorker, Oxford Blue, The Article
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Christmas Roundup
–In The Times newspaper AN Wilson has written a seasonal essay entitled “How I stopped being a Christmas snob.” He begins with an explanation how he had become one: When a young man in my twenties, I devoured a biography … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Christmas, Financial Times, Irish Times, The New European, The Times
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Iona McLaren writng in the Daily Telegraph considers the problem posed by readers who want to be warned against reading something that might upset them–in this case about books in which animals die. The article opens with this: The US … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, Theater, World War II
Tagged Chelsea Arts Club, Daily Telegraph, El Diaria Cultura (Uruguay), The Guardian, The Times newspaper
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Roundup: Spike Milligan, Tom Stoppard and More
–Duncan McLaren has had the idea to compare the WWII novels of two British comedians who wrote about it, based on their experiences: Evelyn Waugh and Spike Milligan. Here’s the introduction: If Evelyn Waugh wrote a series of the most … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged First Thimgs, Maggs Bros booksellers, New York Times, Spike Milligan, The Daily Beast
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Elizabeth II (1926-2022) R.I.P.
The main story of the week is of course the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Waugh commented little about the monarchy, but some of the papers found relevant references in his works. –Dominic Green writing in the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Evening Standard, Guardian, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh and “Cablese”
A letter in the Guardian attributes a humorous but effective example of the use of “cablese” language to a quote of Evelyn Waugh. It is true that Waugh brilliantly parodied the language used by foreign correspondents and their home based … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged "Cablese", The Guardian
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