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Category Archives: Anniversaries
80th Anniversary of WWII
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WWII when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The attack fulfilled Evelyn Waugh’s expectations that a war was imminent after Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact the previous week. See … Continue reading
80th Anniversary of Nazi/Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Marked
The French news website Contrepoints has reposted a 2014 article by British journalist and politician Daniel Hannan (“The biggest success of the left: to forget the German-Soviet pact”). The article was written on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Contrepoints, Daniel Hannan
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Biography of a Poem: W H Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
The Times has a review of a new book by Ian Sansom in its “Book of the Week” column. This is a “biography” of W H Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939” soon to celebrate its 80th birthday. The review by … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged The Times, W H Auden
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Biography of Orwell’s 1984
Today’s New York Times reviews what it describes as a biography of George Orwell’s novel 1984. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the novel’s publication on 8 June 1949 in London and a week later in New York. The book’s … Continue reading
80th Anniversary of Robbery Under Law
This year marks the 80th anniversary of EvelynWaugh’s book, Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object Lesson. This was published in the UK in June 1939 and an American edition followed in September under the title Mexico: An Object Lesson. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Robbery Under Law, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Mexico, Selina Hastings
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Iris Murdoch Centenary Marked This Week
This week is the 100th anniversary of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch’s birth in 1919. It will be marked by a Centenary Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford this weekend (13-15 July). A later conference is scheduled on 10-11 October at the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Iris Murdoch Centenary, TLS
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Weedon Grossmith (d. 14 June 1919)
Weedon Grossmith, best known as the co-author of The Diary of a Nobody (1892) died 100 years ago today. His collaborator was his brother George Grossmith who died in 1912. They were both also successful stage performers and wrote scripts … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers
Tagged The Oldie, Weedon Grossmith
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Brideshead at 75
It was 75 years today that Evelyn Waugh completed his draft of Brideshead Revisited and sent it off to the typist. According to Robert Murray Davis (Evelyn Waugh, Writer, Chapter 6), Waugh had first mentioned writing another novel in October … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Manuscripts, World War II
Tagged Easton Court Hotel
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Queen Victoria @ 200
On Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday we should recall that Evelyn Waugh was a keen admirer of all things Victorian, if not necessarily the Queen herself. He wrote several articles dedicated to Victoriana at a time when it was not a … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Newspapers
Tagged Australia, Mark McGinness, Quadrant, Queen Victoria, Robert Byron
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