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Category Archives: Anniversaries
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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Columbus Day Roundup: Cricket, Latin and Name Extinction
–In what is perhaps this week’s most interesting story, the Independent newspaper has posted a history of the Hollywood Cricket Club. This is by Leonie Cooper and describes in some detail the club’s founding, growth and membership. Evelyn Waugh makes … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged America magazine, New Statesman, The Economist, The independent newspaper, The Times newspaper
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Roundup: Mostly Books
–The Public Domain Review has posted an article and links to reproductions from a noted piece of Victoriana in the Waugh Collection at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. Here’s the opening: The novelist Evelyn Waugh was an inveterate … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Interview Magazine, Irish Times, J F Powers, New Statesman, Public Domain Review
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Summer Dog Days Roundup
–Writer Antonia Fraser is interviewed in a recent Daily Telegraph article. This is on the occasion of her 90th birthday this month. The interview is by her cousin and bridge partner Harry Mount (also editor of The Oldie). When he … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, London, Newspapers
Tagged Antonia Fraser, Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, postcodes, Salman Rushdie, The American Conservative, The Sunday Times
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Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 53.1 (Spring 2022)
The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed to the members and is now posted at this link. Here is a description of the contents as set forth in the cover letter: 1. Thomas J. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Vile Bodies, World War II
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