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Monthly Archives: September 2018
Mid-Month Roundup: Schoolroom Confusion
Our latest roundup starts with references to Waugh’s school days and ends with the 1970s Penguin reprints: —The Independent newspaper has published a list of what it considers the Top 10 examples of celebrities overlapping at the same school. Private … Continue reading
AFI Posts Details of The Loved One
The American Film Institute has posted detailed production information relating to the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. Much of this is familiar but there are some previously unseen (or rarely repeated) elements included in their research … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged American Film Institute
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Battle of the Oxfords
The regional UK paper Frome Times has announced an upcoming event that may be of interest to our readers: Lutyens’ Mells Park is the venue for a hot debate on Who Was Shakespeare? between biographer and critic Alexander Waugh, grandson … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Clare Asquith, Frome Times
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Early September Roundup
There is a diverse field of material covered in this latest roundup gathered from the last two weeks: —Quadrant Magazine, an Australian cultural journal, carries on its website a droll pleading (tongue lodged in cheek) from Tony Thomas that Decline … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Boa Vista, ChinaRhyming.com, David Lull, Lin Yutang, Quadrant, The New Criterion, The Scotsman, Vdare.com, Wales
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Waugh, The Royal Academy and Charles Spencelayh
Duncan McLaren has posted a new article on his website addressing Evelyn Waugh’s admiration of the works of the painter Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958). The paintings of Spencelayh were regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, and the artist was an active … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, The Loved One
Tagged Charles Spencelayh, Duncan McLaren, The Royal Academy
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Folio Society Issues New Brideshead Edition
The Folio Society has issued a new illustrated edition of Brideshead Revisited in its Autumn collection. This is a 344-page hardback book in a slipcase, with an introduction by novelist and critic A N Wilson. According to the Society’s online … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale
Tagged A N Wilson, The Folio Society
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Labor Day Roundup
Spy writer Ben Macintyre was recently interviewed by the New York Times. To the question which book by another author do you wish you had written, he answered: I would love to have written “Scoop,” by Evelyn Waugh, that vicious … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Chronicles, Guardian, New York Times, Standpoint, Surf Europe, Sydney Morning Herald
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