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Category Archives: Articles
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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Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) R.I.P.
Poet, novelist and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. In his native city, the Montreal Gazette has invoked the words of Evelyn Waugh in a memorial article: Evelyn Waugh once said at a certain point in his … Continue reading
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Tagged Leonard Cohen, Montreal Gazette
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Waugh and Nostalgia
The Washington Post’s theatre critic Peter Marks waxes nostalgic in response to the current period of political turmoil consuming the United States. Most prominently, in a recent column entitled “Nostalgia! Yestalgia!”, he harks back to the “soothing” musical comedies of Rodgers and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged Nostalgia, Peter Marks, Washington Post
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Mr and Mrs Chatterbox
Today’s Daily Express carries a story (reproduced in PressReader) about a woman named Doris Delevigne who was one of the few working-class members of the Bright Young People. Born in 1900, she pulled herself up from the lower classes with the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Express, Doris Delevigne, Lord Castlerosse, Lyndsy Spence
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Waugh Article to Appear in Next Issue of Journal
The Space Between, an academic journal devoted to literature and culture in the interwar period, has announced the contents of its next issue. The lead article will be by Waugh scholar Naomi Milthorpe, who teaches at the University of Tasmania. The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Bibliophilia, Conferences
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe, The Space Between, Waugh's library
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