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Category Archives: Anniversaries
Bank Holiday Roundup
—Country Life has posted the second part of their interesting and informative essay on the building and decoration of Campion Hall at Oxford. The first installment was described in an earlier post. Here’s an excerpt relating to Waugh’s contribution to … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Campion Hall, Country Life, Edge Media Network, First Things, The Spectator, Washington Post, William Shakespeare
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‘The Loved One’ Remembered
The New Criterion magazine has posted an essay on the writing, publication and history of Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One. This is by John P Rossi who is Professor Emeritus of History at La Salle University in Philadelphia. While … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Edmund Wilson, John P Rossi, The New Criterion
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Elizabeth Jane Howard Centenary: b. 26 March 1923
The Oldie has published a remembrance by Mark McGinness of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard’s centenary which occurs today. Here’s an excerpt: Elizabeth Jane Howard would have been 100 on 26 March. Her stepson, Martin Amis, paid tribute to her “penetrating … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mark McGinness, The Oldie, The Times
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75th Anniversary of The Loved One
The Loved One appeared in print 75 years ago this month in the pages of Cyril Connolly’s magazine Horizon. Waugh had begun writing it on 21 May 1947 shortly after his return to England from Los Angeles. He finished a … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Daily Mail, Horizon magazine, New Yorker, Peter Quennell
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Roundup: Piers Court Auction (yet more)
–The national quality press has finally picked up the story of the upcoming auction of Piers Court. The Guardian has posted an article by Rupert Neate which explains how the sale came about: The house was last sold for £2.9m … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Piers Court
Tagged Forward, Guardian, McFarland Books, The Sunday Times
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Roundup: Oxford, Metro-Land and Commandos
—The Times has a review of the recent book about Waugh and the Oxford-based Hypocrites Club, entitled Hellfire. See previous posts. This is reviewed by Daisy Dunn who opens with a well written summary of some of the book’s high … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Commandos, Financial Times, Marcel Proust, Metro-Land, The Imaginative Conservative, The Times newspaper
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Waugh at Hertford
Hertford College, Oxford has posted on YouTube an excerpt from a recent presentation at the college to a group of its alumni assembled in the college chapel. The excerpt is the opening of the presentation by the college Principal, Tom … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Oxford
Tagged Hertford College, Tom Fletcher
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Evelyn Waugh’s 119th Birthday
Evelyn Waugh was born on this date in 1903. His birthday is marked in several media announcements but this one on the website of satirist and radio commentator Garrison Keillor is the most detailed: It’s the birthday of Evelyn Waugh, born in London, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Garrison Keillor, Literary Hub
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Roundup: A Handful of Quotes
–Writing in the London Review of Books about the Iranian armed drones being used by Russia against Ukraine, James Meek is reminded of similar weapons employed by the Nazis against Britain in WWII after the Normandy invasion. These were the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Aleteia, Harvard Medicine, Literary Hub, London Review of Books, Majorca Daily Bulletin, The European Conservative
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Roundup: “The Waste Land” Centenary
–The centenary of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land has been marked in several print and broadcast media. The Washington Post notes the poem’s appearance in Brideshead Revisited: First published in the inaugural October 1922 issue of Eliot’s literary magazine, the Criterion, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Diario de Sevilla, T S Eliot, The Conversation, The Epoch Times, The Spectator, W Somerset Maugham, Washington Post
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