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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Socialites to Socialists: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford
Two books in the news were written by or about two of Waugh’s friends and fellow writers: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford. As explained in reviews of those books, both progressed from upper-class to left-wing political views: –Novelist and critic … Continue reading
Labels Reconsidered
A recent issue of the Goldsmiths, University of London literary magazine (GLITS-e-journal) is devoted to “The (Re)Imagined Mediterranean” and contains several articles on that theme. One of them, by post-graduate student Jasmine Bajada from the University of Malta, is entitled: … Continue reading
Adventide Roundup
–There are two comments on similarities between the governmental missteps that lead to the release of a murderous jihadist terrorist and Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Conservative columnist Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph: The deaths inside and outside … Continue reading
La Prensa Article Marks Brideshead Anniversary
The Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa has published an article marking the 75th anniversary of the completion of Brideshead Revisited in 1944. This is entitled “Bajo el hechizo del recuerdo” (“Under the spell of remembrance”) and is written by Guillermo … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Guillermo Belcore, La Prensa (Buenoa Aires), Tusquets
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Clive James (1939-2019) R. I. P.
The critic and poet Clive James has died at the age of 80, after a long fight with cancer. He was born in Australia and moved to England in the early 1960s where he finished his education at Cambridge University. … Continue reading
Brideshead 75th Anniversary Festival Announced
Castle Howard has announced the dates of its festival next summer to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited. This will be held at the Castle Howard estate in North Yorkshire from Friday 26th June to Monday … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals
Tagged Castle Howard
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Pre-Thanksgiving Roundup
–Writing in the Guardian, columnist Marina Hyde looks at the recent debacle arising from Prince Andrew’s BBC Newsnight interview. Her story is entitled “How badly must you do your job for your own mother to fire you?” After several comparisons, … Continue reading
Pinfold, Waugh, and Vivien Leigh
Waugh Society member and frequent contributor Melina Borden has posted on the British Library’s Weblog a brief article based on the BL’s archives of Waugh’s correspondence. The item of primary interest is a telegram Vivien Leigh sent Waugh in advance … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh Society, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged British Library, Vivien Leigh
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75th Anniversary of Brideshead Airdrop
75 years ago today, the page proofs of Brideshead Revisited were dropped by parachute into Yugoslavia and retrieved by Evelyn Waugh. This event is recorded in his diary entry for Monday, 20 November 1944 (Diaries, p. 592). This is the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, World War II
Tagged Yugoslavia
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Brideshead Serial Lecture Available Online
The audio version of the lecture delivered last Friday to the British Studies seminar at the University of Texas is now available online. See previous post. It can be accessed at this link.
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures
Tagged British Studies Seminar, University of Texas
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