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Category Archives: Articles
Dudley Carew (More)
The current issue of The Cricket Monthly includes a major article about Waugh’s school friend Dudley Carew. See earlier post. This article, by Gideon Haigh, has particular reference to Carew’s career as a reporter on cricket for The Times and his 1936 cricket-themed … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Articles, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Arthur Waugh, Dudley Carew, Gideon Haigh, The Cricket Monthly
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Country Life Revisits “U and Non-U” Controversy
Country Life magazine has published an article reviewing the “U and Non-U” speech controversy 60 years since it raged in the 1950s after it was publicized by Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, inter alia, in the collection of essays published … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Country Life, Nancy Mitford, U and Non-U
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El Mundo Writes of Sybille Bedford’s Debt to Waugh
A Spanish-language article in the daily newspaper El Mundo published in Madrid relates the story of author Sybille Bedford’s struggle to start her writing career. This did not begin until she was in her 40s. She was born in Germany into a half Jewish … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged El Mundo, Sybille Bedford, The Legacy
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Letter to Times Cites Waugh Defense of Wodehouse
In a letter to The Times (headed “Wodehouse’s World”) arising from reports of the archiving of the papers of P G Wodehouse at the British Library (see earlier post), a reader has added Evelyn Waugh to the list of those who … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Radio Programs, World War II
Tagged P G Wodehsose, The Times
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New Year Greetings via Evelyn Waugh in GQ
GQ magazine includes a quote from Evelyn Waugh in its New Year’s greeting article by Scott Meslow (“Champagne is an Anytime Drink”): Here is the best time to drink Champagne: whenever. Throwing a dinner party? Keep a nice bottle of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Champagne, GQ, Scott Meslow, Vogue
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Evelyn Waugh: Equal Opportunity Racist
The conservative website Heat Street has published an article by UK journalist Constance Watson defending Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief against charges frequently leveled at it for its racist remarks, citing several from Twitter as examples. As she points out, the book … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Twitter, Waugh Family
Tagged Constance Watson, Heat Street
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Feast Day of Edmund Campion Marked
Yesterday was the feast day in the Roman Catholic Church for St Edmund Campion. It was marked on two Roman Catholic websites with quotations from Waugh’s biography of Campion first published in 1935. On the website of the Association of Catholic Women … Continue reading
Collection of Elizabeth Bowen Reviews Published
A substantial collection of the book reviews written by novelist Elizabeth Bowen has been published by Northwestern University Press. It is entitled The Weight of a World of Feeling and is edited by Allan Hepburn, who previously edited a volume of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Elizabeth Bowen, Micah Mattix, Washington Free Beacon
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Milk in First
A recent article in the Sunday Telegraph describes its reporter’s experiences in a venture …at the Lanesborough hotel in London, which has recently launched an afternoon tea etiquette experience in partnership with Debrett’s, which has been Britain’s authority on etiquette and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Afternoon Tea, Telegraph
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