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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
V-E Day Roundup
–As the observance of the 75th anniversary of V-E Day approaches, the Daily Mail has posted in a slide show a collection of 1945 events that seemed to presage a return to a social system where class status was again … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, World War II
Tagged Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Tatler, V-E Day
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Post-Pandemic Predictions: A Roundup
–David Aaronovitch writing in a recent issue of The Times posed the question what would be the cultural responses to the pandemic. This is in an article entitled “We’ll be free to enjoy the Roaring 2020s”. He thought the closest … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Vile Bodies
Tagged aperture.org, The Times, thebfd.co.nz, Washington Exminer
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Roundup: Audrey Lucas and More
–Duncan Mclaren has added more information to his website concerning Waugh’s friendship with actress and writer Audrey Lucas. This takes the form of an imagined interview of Audrey by Nancy Mitford in advance of the now postponed Brideshead Festival at … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Express & Star (Wolverhampton), Penguin Books
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Mary Lygon Profiled
An article was recently posted on the website RoyalFoibles,com devoted to the life and, more particularly, the unhappy marriage of Waugh’s friend Mary Lygon. This is entitled “F****d Up Royal, or in this case Imperial, Marriages #49”. But don’t be … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Mary Lygon, RoyalFoibles.com, Vsevolod Romanov
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Slightly Foxed Podcast Posted: “The Ordeal of Evelyn Waugh”
The podcast produced by Slightly Foxed magazine mentioned in a previous post has now been posted. Here’s the link. Alexander Waugh and Selina Hastings are the guest panelists. A summary and cites to mentions of several works by and about … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Selina Hastings, Slightly Foxed
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Book Clubs and Waugh
An article has been posted on the academic website TheConversation.com entitled “Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading.” This is by Nicola Wilson of the University of Reading. She explains the growth of book … Continue reading
Easter Roundup: Reading Waugh in a Time of Self-Isolation
–An article in National Review relates mainly to Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel in Italian The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). This is by M D Aeschliman who explains the popularity of the 700 page work among his University of Virginia students … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Sword of Honour
Tagged Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Independent, The Spectator, ThePublicDiscourse.com
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Acedemic Roundup: Spring 2020
–The journal The University Scholar published by the University of Dallas, has included an essay on Waugh in its Fall 2019 issue (v. XX, No. 1, p. 48). This is entitled “An Animalistic Death Cult: Materialism and Religiosity in Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Academic Journals
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Evelyn Waugh, d. 10 April 1966, R.I.P.
Today is the 54th anniversary of the death of Evelyn Waugh. His death occurred on what was Easter Sunday, and he had attended Mass earlier in the day. He died after returning to his home in Combe Florey and is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey
Tagged Good Friday, St Thomas Aquinas College
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Pre-Easter Roundup
–Roger Lewis has posted another reading list for the current epidemic. This is in the Daily Mail and is entitled “Keep laughing and read on.” Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop is among those recommended: William Boot, who contributes nature columns on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Australian Financial News, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Guardian, L'Officiel, Ralph Lauren, Southern Utah University, TLS
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