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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Waugh and Two Noteworthy 1950s Americans
Recent stories feature Waugh’s attitude toward two Americans who rose to popular fame during the 1950s (and in one case descended into infamy). Waugh’s position on each of them is not what one would have expected. The first is described … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged CrimeReads.com, Erle Stanley Gardner, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Joseph McCarthy, The Spectator, TLS, William F Buckley Jr
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Evelyn Waugh as Seen by Anthony Blanche
This week’s Spectator has another writing competition in which a Waugh entry gets a mention. This is #3177 and the topic is “a well-known fictional person’s view of their author”. The Spectator’s Lucy Vickery cites some interesting non-winners in her … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged JCH Mounsey, Taki Theodoracopulos, The Spectator
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Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
–Stig Abell, former editor of the TLS, has written a book entitled Things I Learned on the 6:28 in which he writes about books he has read while commuting. The Times has posted a selection of the comic novels he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged ECADF, Ethiopia, Irish Echo, John Connolly, The Times, TLS
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Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day Roundup
–In another article about the proposed new Brideshead TV series, Alexander Larman wonders whether there might not be more deserving works of Waugh for adaptation. This is published in the latest issue of The Critic. After noting that it will … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Billy Wilder, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Jonathan Coe, New Criterion, Night and Day, Sydney Morning Herald, The Critic
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A Biography and A Portrait
–Waugh scholar and EW Society member Ann Pasternak Slater has written a new book relating to a writer Waugh admired but knew only slightly. This is a biography of T S Eliot’s wife Vivien. The book is reviewed by Brian … Continue reading
Rosalind Morrison (More)
The Australian literary magazine Quadrant has posted a story by Mark McGinness which provides more details about the life of Rosalind Morrison who died recently at the age of 74. See previous post. He explains among other things her connection … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Madresfield Court, Mark McGinness, Quadrant, Rosalind Morrison
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Deal on New Brideshead Series Reported Imminent
It has been reported in the Daily Mail, Radio Times and Deadline that a deal on a new Brideshead Revisited TV series by the BBC and HBO is imminent. Here’s the story as reported in Tatler: 2020 marks the 75th … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Baz Bambigboye, BBC, Daily Mail, Tatler
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Halloween Roundup
–There are several reviews this week of William Boyd’s new novel Trio. Waugh is mentioned in some of them. The Guardian’s review opens with this: …Some of his comic writing suggests a kinship with Evelyn Waugh as a farceur of rare … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Damian McBride, Evesham Journal, Guardian, Lord Bevarbrook, Rosalind Morrison, Standpont, The Scotsman
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War Trilogy: Fake Novels and an Anniversary
In the latest issue of TLS, D J Taylor has written an essay on what he calls “Made-up Stories” or fake novels. What reminded him of the genre (if that’s what it is) was his recent re-reading of Anthony Powell’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Work Suspended, World War II
Tagged Brenthursst Foundation, D.J.Taylor, Daily Maverick, TLS
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Roundup: From Goldfinger to What’s Become of Waring?
–The Guardian has announced the death earlier this month of actress Margaret Nolan (1943-2020). She had …a noticeable role in the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night (as the girl accompanying Wilfrid Brambell in a casino), and the James Bond … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Guardian, Harpers Magazine, Margaret Nolan, New Statesman, P.G.Wodehouse, The Critic, The Quarterly Review, William Boyd, William Gaddis
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