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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Waugh Panel at Cologne Literary Festival
A discussion of Evelyn Waugh is scheduled as part of the International Literary Festival “lit.Cologne”. This will be convened on board the ship MS Rhein Energie at Frankenwerft, KD Anleger, 50667 Cologne on Saturday, 18 March 2017, at 21:00pm. Here’s an abbreviated … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Festivals
Tagged Joachim Krol, lit.Cologne, Paul Ingendaay
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“Two Lives” Reviewed
Waugh’s biographies of two Roman Catholic priests (Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox) were published as a single volume entitled Two Lives in 2002. A paperback edition was issued in 2005. Both editions were published by Continuum International Publishing, an independent academic press … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Knox
Tagged Eve Tushnet, Patheos
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HHA Literary Trail (more)
Another local paper (The Gazette) has published a story about Evelyn Waugh’s association with a country house on the Historic House Association’s new literary trail. This is Woodchester Mansion located between Dursley (where the Waughs lived from 1937-1955) and Stroud. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dursley, National Trust, Nympsfield, Piers Court, Woodchester Mansion, Woodchester Park
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Novelist Nicholas Mosley (1923-2017)
The death has been announced of novelist Nicholas Mosley at the age of 93. He wrote several novels which are variously described in his obituaries as “heavy going”, “densely written”, “adventurous”, and “not light reading.” So, these are not exactly written … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Diana Mosley, New York Times, Nicholas Mosley, Oswald Mosley
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Patrick Melrose Novels to be Televised
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn will be adapted for television in a 5 episode series. Each episode will be devoted to one of the five novels. The satirical humor of these novels is often compared to the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, David Nicholls, Edward St. Aubyn, Evening Standard, New York Times Book Review, Patrick Melrose Novels, The Independent
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Waugh and the Great Ladies
Lyndsy Spence, founder of The Mitford Society and editor of their annual collection of essays, articles and reviews (which recently published its 4th volume) has also written a series of essays about aristocratic women of the interwar period. This is entitled These Great Ladies: … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Doris Delevingne, Emerald Cunard, Lyndsy Spence, The Mitford Society, These Great Ladies: Peeresses and Pariahs
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Waugh and Highclere (More)
The Countess of Carnarvon who presently resides with her husband at Highclere Castle in Hampshire has written a book about entertaining there. The house was the setting for the recent Downton Abbey TV series and is being open to the … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Daily Mail, Highclere Castle, Lady Fiona Carnarvon, Sibell Lygon
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The Loved One is Prescribed Reading for Europeans
Writing in his Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung blog, “Don Alphonso” informs his European readers that they cannot understand what is going on in the United States today unless they have first read Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One (in German translated as Tod … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Don Alphonso, FAZ, Laurie Penny, Milo Yiannopoulos
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