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Monthly Archives: September 2015
2001 Sword of Honour Starring Daniel Craig on Acorn TV
William Boyd’s 2001 television adaptation of is currently showing on Acorn TV (“[t]he best British TV streaming on demand”) in the United States and Canada. The two-episode show stars Daniel Craig as Guy Crouchback. Earlier this year William Boyd (who’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Daniel Craig, William Boyd
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2015 John H. Wilson Jr. Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest
Submissions are solicited for the (newly re-dedicated) John H. Wilson Jr. Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest. Essays (normally limited to 20 pages or 5,000 words) are invited on any aspect of Waugh’s life or work and will be judged by … Continue reading
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Mrs Stitch on Parking Etiquette
The Lady magazine in a recent installment of its Guide to Modern Manners series offers advice to its readers on parking. The column opens with this example of Julia Stitch’s answer to the parking problem: Lady Diana Cooper, the grand socialite … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, The Lady, Traffic Problems
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Daily Telegraph Lists Brideshead as a Top ITV Production
The Daily Telegraph last week marked the 60th anniversary of ITV by asking its critics to name their favorites among the network’s programs.  Granada TV’s 1981 production of Brideshead Revisited was ranked number 8: This sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, ITV 60th Anniversary, William Boyd
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Evelyn Waugh, Cigar Lover
USA Today recently ran a story about renewed interest in the cigar industry following restoration of relations between the U.S. and Cuba. The story looks forward to the day when Cuban cigars will again become routinely available to U.S. smokers. In an effort … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Havana cigars, USA Today
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Hetton Abbey Cited in Gilbert Scott Article
Architectural historian and critic Gavin Stamp refers to Hetton Abbey in his recent Spectator review of a biography of George Gilbert Scott: Briefing his illustrator for the jacket of A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh asked for a country house in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Letters, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Art Deco, Gavin Stamp, George Gilbert Scott, J.D.M. Harvey, Paul Dobraszczyk, Senate House, Victorian Architecture
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Spectator Article Reprises the Perroquet
In this week’s Spectator, Bruce Anderson calls up scenes from Black Mischief to describe the ideal nightclub. This is the Perroquet in Debra Dowa: I thought about Black Mischief while giving dinner to delightful young Alex in a more conventional club … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Bruce Anderson, Night Clubs, Spectator
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Waugh Cited in Latest Cameron Dispute
In today’s Guardian, there is a discussion of the allegations that David Cameron was a member of a secret Oxford club called the Piers Gaveston Society. It was founded in 1977 and named for Edward’s II’s lover. These stories have been … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged Bullingdon Club, David Cameron, Guardian, Oxford clubs, Piers Gaveston Society
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Two Recent Waugh Books in Literary Review
A review of two recent books about Evelyn Waugh has become available on the internet, at least in part. The books are In the Picture by Donat Gallagher and Carlos Vilar Flor, both professors of English Literature, and Evelyn! A Rhapsody … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, World War II
Tagged Carlos Vilar Flor, Donat Gallagher, Duncan McLaren, Literary Review, Philip Eade
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Debut Novel Inspired By Brideshead
Kate Scelsa, whose first novel has just been published, explains in yesterday’s Guardian how her book was inspired by Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. She was given the book by a college housemate but read it only several years later. As a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Guardian, Kate Scelsa
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