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Category Archives: Locations
Early Autumn Roundup
—The Sunday Times carries a review by novelist and critic A N Wilson of the book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer. In the course of this, which is largely a defense of Spencer’s book, Wilson cites an … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh Studies 57.1 (Spring 2026)
The EWS has posted the most recent issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies. This is No. 57.1 (Spring 2026). An email describing the issue as well as a link to the text is posted below: “I trust you’ve all had an … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Helena, Lancing
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Memorial Day (US)/Bank Holiday (UK) Roundup
–The latest issue of The Oldie has an article by Robert Fitzpatrick entitled “The Real Captain Grimes”. Here’s the opening paragraph: In his 1928 novel, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh created one of his most famous comic characters, Captain Grimes. … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Combe Florey, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Photographs, Radio, The Loved One, When the Going Was Good
Tagged BBC, Fourble.co.uk, instaread.co, Sotheby's, The Oldie, The Times
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Mark Gerson, Photographer (1921-2026) R.I.P.
Mark Gerson, who photographed Waugh and his family at two sessions in 1959 and 1963, has died at the age of 104, according to the Daily Telegraph. These sessions took place at the family home in Combe Florey. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Combe Florey, Obituaries, Photographs
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Mark Gerson
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Lenten Roundup
–Lancing College has announced the details of this year’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. Here is the announcement: The Head Master, Dr Scott Crawford, requests the pleasure of your company at the Evelyn Waugh Lecture and Annual Foundation Dinner, to be held on Thursday 30 … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Lancing, Lectures, Newspapers
Tagged Guardian, Tablet, The Spectator
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End of January Roundup
–A Scottish blogger, posting on Hole Ousia, has expressed his admiration for Waugh’s Diaries. Here’s his discussion of selections from the diaries which he has recently read: I recently read ‘The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh‘ as edited by Michael Davie. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell, Sunday Telegraph, The Times
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Roundup: MLK Day (US) Edition
–The Financial Times has an article by Janan Ganesh entitled “The right will want a United States of Europe”. It opens with this: Auberon Waugh, son of the novelist Evelyn, died a quarter of a century ago this month. Never … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell, Financial Times, The Conversation, The Imaginative Conservative, The Irish Aesthete, The Spectator
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First-of-the-Year Roundup
—Prospect Magazine has posted an interview of novelist William Boyd by Cosmo Adair. It begins with a discussion of Boyd’s latest novels (several dealing with spies) and proceeds back from that. Here’s an excerpt: …Of all the spy writers, Graham … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Heath Mount, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Los Angeles County Library, Prospect Magazine, The Spectator
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John Carey: b. 5 April 1935, d. 11 December 2025: R.I.P.
John Carey, former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford and one of his generation’s most noted literary critics, died last week at the age of 92. His obituary appeared, inter alia, in the Guardian, The Times and the Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Obituaries, Oxford
Tagged Daily Telegraph, John Carey
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Early September Roundup
–The online journal American Thinker has posted an article by Lars Møller entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s England: A Lament for a Lost World”. Here are the opening paragraphs: In the mid-twentieth century, the English novelist Evelyn Waugh chronicled, with elegance and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Lancing, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged American Thinker, Daily Telegraph, Eleanor Doughty, Literary Review, The Spectator, The Times
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