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Category Archives: Diaries
Tom Wolfe Alters Waugh
Novelist Tom Wolfe has written a detailed obituary of painter and photographer Marie Cosindas for New York magazine. In this, he explains that Cosindas is best known for being the first photographer to realize the potentials of Polaroid color film. She studied under … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Marie Cosindas, Marseilles, New York Magazine, Tom Wolfe
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Complete Works of Waugh Available in USA
Amazon.com is offering for sale in the USA the first five volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh to be published by Oxford University Press. The dates of publication and US dollar prices are set forth below. For more details … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Amazon.com, Oxford University Press
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OUP Announces Dates for First Complete Works Volumes
The Oxford University Press on its website has announced the publication of the first volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. There are five books in this initial batch which will begin to appear on 7 September 2017 with Rossetti: … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Complete Works of Waugh publication dates, Oxford University Press
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Hetton Abbey and Carlton Towers
Blogger Cathy Murray posting on her weblog “Cabbages and Semolina” has discussed several country houses that have inspired literary locations. After mentioning the connection between Highclere Castle and Downton Abbey and that between Castle Howard and Brideshead Castle she notes that: A less well known … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Diaries, Film, Letters, Locations
Tagged Carlton Towers, Cathy Murray
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Waugh Cited in Arsenal Manager Crisis
The ongoing crisis in the status of Arsene Wenger as manager of the Arsenal FC has resulted in a quote from Waugh in the Guardian. This appears in a posting of Marina Hyde on the Guardian’s Sportblog considering this long pending matter: … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Newspapers
Tagged Abdication, Arsene Wenger, Guardian, Marina Hyde
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Maud Russell Diaries in Telegraph
Excerpts from the wartime diaries of Maud Russell have been published in the Daily Telegraph. In a previous post it was explained how she commissioned Rex Whistler to paint murals in her country house at Mottisfont in Hampshire where there is … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Diaries, First Editions, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Ian Fleming, Maud Russell
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Hat Trick for Waugh in The Spectator
This week’s Spectator features three articles mentioning Evelyn Waugh. The first is in a memorial for Tara Palmer-Tomkinson who died this week at the age of 45. The magazine reprints an article she wrote which appeared in the 27 July … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cosmo Landesman, Independent (Ireland), Kirsty Blake Knox, Ludovic Kennedy, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tara Parker-Tomkinson, The Spectator
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Early Waugh Book on Offer
London booksellers Peter Harrington are offering an early Waugh publication from 1927. This is a collection called the Decorative Drawings of Francis Crease for which Waugh wrote the 5 page preface. This was published the year after the appearance of his … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Bibliophilia, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Items for Sale, Lancing
Tagged Francis Crease, Peter Harrington Booksellers
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“Prose Factory” in Paperback
The Times has selected D J Taylor’s The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 as one of its paperback picks of the week: Evelyn Waugh noted in his diary: “After dinner I went to the Savoy Theatre and said, ‘I … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Times newspaper
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