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Category Archives: Biographies
Cousin Jasper’s Advice
Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard has written an article about degree results. She opens with this: In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, the protagonist Charles Ryder receives advice from his cousin Jasper before starting his Oxford degree. “You want a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, Evening Standard, Literary Hub, Lord Speaker, The American Conservative
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Ritchie-Hook Model Appears in New Book
Writing in the Irish Times, author Mark Felton describes one of the British officers who appear in his new book as the model for Evelyn Waugh’s eccentric Ben Ritchie-Hook in his Sword of Honour trilogy. This is Brigadier-General Adrian Carton … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Adrian Carton de Wiart, Christopher Sykes, Irish Times, Mark Felton
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Death Comes for the Comic Novelist
The interactive website Ranker has set up a listing that describes 13 celebrities who died on the toilet. This seemingly tasteless and pointless compilation by Carly Silver is part of Ranker’s subject category entitled “Celebrity Deaths.” Most of the deaths listed are of historical figures, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
Tagged Dappled Things, Graham Greene, Martin Stannard, Ranker
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Evelyn Waugh and Selina Hastings x 2
Forum Auctions has posted an early letter from Evelyn Waugh (sometime in 1929) relating to the writing of Vile Bodies. This is addressed to Lord Hastings and thanks him for the loan of a two-volume work about his ancestor Selina, Countess … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Forum Auctions, Lord Hastings, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings
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TLS Reviews Waugh Books
The latest TLS has a review of the two recently published books about Evelyn Waugh by Ann Pasternak Slater and Philip Eade. The review, entitled “Horrors of Waugh”, is available to read on the internet. It is written by journalist … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Philip Eade, TLS, Violet Hudson
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Paula Byrne to Appear at Highclere and Other Waugh News
Biographer Paula Byrne (author of Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009)) will appear in a program entitled “Literature and Landscapes” to be held at Highclere Castle near Newbury, Berkshire, in May. The venue is better known as the … Continue reading
Alec Waugh Features in New Book
Alec Waugh prominently appears in a recently published book entitled Wild Bird:The True Jazz Age Tale of Ruth Wrightman Morris. The subject of this book is the “Ruth,” whose name is otherwise undisclosed and who populates most of the final chapters of volume one of his … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Biographies
Tagged "Wild Bird", John Greenwald, Ruth Wrightman Morris, The Beach Reporter
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Jesuit Journal Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of America magazine, the journal of the Jesuit order in the US, reviews Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. The review is by David Leigh and is not a favorable one: Any biographer of Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, David Leigh, Philip Eade
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NYRB Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of the New York Review of Books has a review of Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by John Banville and is entitled “The Strange Genius of the Master.” Banville also named Eade’s book as … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Garry Wills, John Banville, NYRB, Philip Eade, Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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William H Pritchard Reviews New Waugh Books
Noted US literary critic William H Pritchard has reviewed the two new books about Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade and Ann Pasternak Slater. The article entitled “Evelyn Waugh Revisited” is published in the current issue of The Hudson Review. Prof Pritchard has … Continue reading
