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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Early September Roundup
–The online journal American Thinker has posted an article by Lars Møller entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s England: A Lament for a Lost World”. Here are the opening paragraphs: In the mid-twentieth century, the English novelist Evelyn Waugh chronicled, with elegance and … Continue reading
Labour Day (US) Weekend
–Journalist Eleanor Doughty has made a career of writing articles about the British aristocracy. Now she has expanded her writing on the subject into a book entitled Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy. This has just … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Waugh Family
Tagged Daisy Waugh, Financial Times, The Spectator
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Roundup: 3 Novels–2 new and 1 renewed
—The Spectator reviews a new “campus novel”. This is called Seduction Theory and is written by Emily Adrian. Here is the opening paragraph: There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley … Continue reading
Early August Roundup
–Novelist Dan Fesperman in LitHub.com discusses five novels which are set in realistic but imaginary places. One of those is Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop: …Waugh’s skewering of Fleet Street, published in 1938, is set in the East Africa nation of Ishmaelia, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged CentMagazine.co.uk, LitHub.com, Prospect Magazine, The Oldie, The Times
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4th of July (USA) Roundup
–The most interesting item this week is a short essay posted on the literary website Dappled Things by Geoffrey Smagasz. This is called “Orphans of the Storm” and is based on the chapter of that name in Waugh’s novel Brideshead … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Internet, Labels, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Aleteia.org, Bloomsbury.com, DallpedThings.org, Reason magazine, Sonoma Velley Sun
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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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Early June Roundup
–A recent issue of the Daily Telegraph reports the death of Roger Cooper. This includes a discussion of Cooper’s extended imprisonment in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran: Roger Cooper, who has died aged 90, was a British journalist and businessman who was … Continue reading
May Day Roundup
—The Times newspaper has published an article by Max Hastings on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. In it Hastings explains: Almost five decades after publishing my first book about war, I am no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Clive James, Dark Academia, Max Hastings, The Times newspaper, William Boyd
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Easter Week Roundup
British journalist Eleanor Doughty, well known to our readers, has made a revisit to Castle Howard. What she finds is described in an article in the Times newspaper. Here is an excerpt: There is nowhere on earth like Castle Howard. … Continue reading
Tax Day (USA) Roundup
–Writing in the Times newspaper, Johanna Thomas-Corr comments on Queen Camilla’s appearance in public wearing her wedding dress. Thomas-Corr thinks that this is a good practice and one in which she herself has engaged. Here’s the conclusion: …I often wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Financial Times, Tatler, The Mitfords, The Spectator, Times newspaper
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