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Yearly Archives: 2025
Labour Day (US) Weekend
–Journalist Eleanor Doughty has made a career of writing articles about the British aristocracy. Now she has expanded her writing on the subject into a book entitled Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy. This has just … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Waugh Family					
					
				
								
					Tagged Daisy Waugh, Financial Times, The Spectator				
				
				
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		Bank Holiday (UK) Roundup
–Some of those around London may be interested in an event planned for Bank Holiday Monday. Here’s a description from the Londonist website: ISLINGTON WALK: The Bring Your Baby guided walks team offers a tour around Islington, aimed at parents and carers … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Academia, London, Newspapers					
					
				
								
					Tagged Daily Telegraph, Londonist, Patrick Hamilton, UnHerd.com, Virginia Quarterly Review				
				
				
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		Roundup: 3 Novels–2 new and 1 renewed
—The Spectator reviews a new “campus novel”. This is called Seduction Theory and is written by Emily Adrian. Here is the opening paragraph: There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop					
					
				
								
					Tagged Stanford University, The Claremont Institute, The Guardian, The Spectator, Washington Examiner, Washington Post				
				
				
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		Roundup: Articles, a Script and an Interview
–The New York Times has an opinion article in the Sunday edition that may be of interest. The columnist Carlos Lozada explains how he ruthlessly selects his summer beach reading in a way that really, REALLY assures he will choose … Continue reading
									
						Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Auctions, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One					
					
				
								
					Tagged eBay, El Pais, FlashBak.com, New York Times, The Spectator				
				
				
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		Early August Roundup
–Novelist Dan Fesperman in LitHub.com discusses five novels which are set in realistic but imaginary places. One of those is Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop: …Waugh’s skewering of Fleet Street, published in 1938, is set in the East Africa nation of Ishmaelia, … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Vile Bodies					
					
				
								
					Tagged CentMagazine.co.uk, LitHub.com, Prospect Magazine, The Oldie, The Times				
				
				
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		EWS No. 55.3 Winter 2024-25
The latest edition of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed. Here is the message of the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson that accompanied the distribution: The latest Evelyn Waugh Studies – edition 55.3 – is ready for your reading pleasure. … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh Studies, The Loved One, World War II					
					
				
				
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		Roundup: Compilations, Conferences, Croatia and Cover Art
–A profile of author David Pryce-Jones has been posted on the website Onward and Upward. This is written by Jay Nordlinger and is a well-written, concise survey of Pryce-Jones’s life and works. Here’s an excerpt: …Over the years, I have … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Conferences, World War II					
					
				
								
					Tagged Croatia, David Pryce-Jones, Quentin Blake, William Myers				
				
				
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		Satire Gets Some Attention
–Ferdinand Mount is interviewed in a recent edition of The Times newspaper. This is reported by Johanna Thomas-Corr. Here is an excerpt in which Mount discusses his latest novel: The Pentecost Papers, Mount’s 29th book and 14th novel, is focused … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop					
					
				
								
					Tagged Alexander Starritt, Ferdinand Mount, Gertrude Trevelyan, London Review of Books, Prospect, The Spectator, The Times				
				
				
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		Roundup: Fogeys and their Habitat
–The religious journal First Things in its current edition (August/September) has a feature length article entitled ‘Waugh Against the Fogeys’. This is written by Jaspreet Singh Boparai. Here are the opening paragraphs: On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Articles, Bibliophilia, Discussions, Scoop					
					
				
								
					Tagged BBC, Duncan McLaren, First Things, History Today, New York Times, YouTube				
				
				
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		4th of July (USA) Roundup
–The most interesting item this week is a short essay posted on the literary website Dappled Things by Geoffrey Smagasz. This is called “Orphans of the Storm” and is based on the chapter of that name in Waugh’s novel Brideshead … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Internet, Labels, Newspapers, The Loved One					
					
				
								
					Tagged Aleteia.org, Bloomsbury.com, DallpedThings.org, Reason magazine, Sonoma Velley Sun				
				
				
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