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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Roundup: Brideshead to Bridgerton
–A new Netflix serial “Bridgerton” has been compared in several papers to Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited and its film and TV adaptations. Here an excerpt from the Bloomsberg News: … “Bridgerton” is a sly and sexy Netflix Inc. series set … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Bloomberg News, Netflix, New Criterion, The Times, TheRoyalUK.com, Wall Street Journal
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Unloved in LA
William Cash has written a feature length article in the Catholic Herald that provides some new insights into Evelyn Waugh’s 1947 trip to Hollywood. The trip combined an effort to agree film rights with MGM for Brideshead Revisited as well … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic Herald, MGM Studios, William Cash
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Another Brideshead Anniversary
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited in America in book format. A serialized version had been issued in four installments in November 1944-February 1945 in Town & Country magazine published in New York. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions
Tagged Book of the Month Club, Little Brown & Co
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Year’s End Roundup
–Writing in The Critic, Clive Aslet discusses the decision of the Tate Gallery to close its restaurant in response to its designation as “racist” conferred on the mural of Rex Whistler, which decorates its restaurant. See earlier post. Aslet puts … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Labels, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Alan Bennett's Diary, Armenians, Catholic World Report, Keghart.org, London Review of Books, Penguin Classics, The Critic, The Times
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The Waugh Before Christmas
Several publication and broadcast media have featured Waugh’s works in their holiday season offerings: –The BBC is going to rebroadcast a 2016 radio program that includes readings from Philip Eade’s biography: Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. This will be transmitted … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC Radio Four Extra, New York Times, Nicholas Grace, Telegraph India, Times Literary Supplement
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Mid-December Roundup
–Posted on the website of the Australian literary journal Quadrant, an article by Mark McGinness marks the 75th anniversary of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love. This was published on 10 December 1945 about 6 months after Brideshead Revisited … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Guardian, Nancy Mitford, New Statesman, Quadrant, The Times, William Boyd
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John le Carré (David Cornwell): 1931-2020 R.I.P.
Novelist John le Carré died last week at the age of 89. Best known for his novels about spies, espionage and governmental bureaucratic intrigue, le Carre’s work would seem to have little in common with that of Evelyn Waugh. Spies … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, John le Carre, Mark Lawson
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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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