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Category Archives: Biographies
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
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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Roundup: From Party Going to Boredom
–A recent issue of Financial Times contains a “Weekend Essay” on the return of the party, to London and New York at least. This is by Alex Bilmes who is editor of Esquire. After reminiscing about how party going shut … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Madeleine Kearns, Mail on Sunday, National Catholic Register, The Spectator
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May Day Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has a preview of the upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. See previous post: THE Mitford sisters would doubtless approve. Emily Mortimer, the daughter of the novelist John Mortimer [credited with screenplay for … Continue reading
Italian Version of A Little Learning
Evelyn Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning will come out in an Italian edition next week. This is entitled Autobiografia di un perdigiorno (Autobiography of an Idler). Here is a translated excerpt of a review in Il Giornali by Stenio Solinas … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Il Giornali, Italian Translation, Mario Fortunato, Stenio Solinas
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