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Category Archives: Biographies
Easter Roundup
–Jack Trotter has posted an essay on Waugh’s work in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. This is entitled “Remembering Evelyn Waugh: Satirist and Defender of Moral Order.” It opens with this: Evelyn Waugh was the 20th century’s finest satirist … Continue reading
Mid-December Roundup
–Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph a critique of the newly issued US National Security Strategy. The article is entitled “Civilisation erasure is real, but Donald Trump is part of the problem,” and opens with this: Amid stiff competition … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Decline and Fall, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Martin Stannard, PBK, The Lamp, The Spectator
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Octoberfest Roundup
–The scripts of the TV series “All Creatures Great and Small” are being posted on the internet. Here’s an excerpt from an episode from the final series (No. 6) in which one of the vets is being introduced to a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Decline and Fall, Internet, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged America magazine, BBC, Muriel Spark, The Mirror, The Oldie
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Roundup: From Lytham Hall to Combe Florey
–Lytham Hall is cited in a recent article as having inspired or influenced the country house setting of Brideshead Revisited. This is in a feature-length article by David Slattery-Christy in the Sunday Express. The author thinks that both the owner … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Photographs
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Lytham Hall, Muriel Spark, New Statesman, Pamela Berry, Sunday Express, Sunday Telegraph
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Memorial Day/Bank Holiday Roundup
–The Garden Museum in Lambeth, London, has opened an exhibit called “Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party.” This was described in a recent article in The Observer by Vanessa Thorpe: …The strong horticultural influence on Beaton’s work is recognised now in an … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Events, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Garden Museum/Lambeth, Harvard Crimson, The Observer, The Oldie
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New Biography of Lady Pamela Berry
–A new biography of Waugh’s friend Pamela Berry has recently been announced. This is entitled Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power. It was reviewed in The Sunday Times by Max Hastings in an article entitled “The grand dame of … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Charles Moore, Lady Pamela Berry, Max Hastings, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times
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Mid-September Roundup
–A new biography of Claud Cockburn, friend and cousin of Evelyn Waugh has been published. This is entitled Believe in Nothing Until It is Officially Denied and is reviewed on the British political website conservativehome.com. The book by Patrick Cockburn … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Complete Works, Film, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Claud Cockburn, Conservativehome.com, Oxford University Press, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Tax Day (U.S.) Roundup
–A review of the recent Netflix film entitled Scoop appears in The Hollywood Reporter and several other papers. It is written by Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell and opens with this: Scoop is a dramatized feature about the BBC’s Newsnight team … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Nicholas Shakespeare, Philip Eade, The Hollywood Reporter, The Oldie, Washington Post
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