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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Harold Acton’s Estate Subject of Lawsuit
The New York Post’s celebrity gossip website PageSix,com has posted a story relating to Harold Acton’s bequest of his estate near Florence, Italy to New York University. Acton died childless in 1994 and left most of his fine art and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Harold Acton, New York Post, The Oldie, Villa La Pietra
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Late July Roundup
–The latest issue of The Oldie has an article by David Horspool comparing the WWII novels of Lev Grossman (Stalingrad), recently published for the first time in a complete English translation, and Joseph Heller (Catch 22), recently adapted into a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged American Psycho, Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, David Horspool, Filmmaker Magazine, Princess Margaret, Spectator, The Oldie
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Iris Murdoch Centenary Marked This Week
This week is the 100th anniversary of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch’s birth in 1919. It will be marked by a Centenary Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford this weekend (13-15 July). A later conference is scheduled on 10-11 October at the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Iris Murdoch Centenary, TLS
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4th of July Weekend Roundup
–America: The Jesuit Review has reposted on its website a 2013 essay about Waugh written by Jon M Sweeney. The essay was a response to the re-issuance of all of his fiction in the USA by Little, Brown and all … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Television
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Catch-22, Evening Standard, Los Angeles Times, The Oldie, University of Birmingham, Vita and Virginia
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Wavian Wine Writing
The Catholic Herald has a review of Auberon Waugh’s 1986 book Waugh on Wine which has been reprinted by Quartet Books. The review is by David Platzer who writes: Waugh reveals in his introduction that it was Tina Brown, his … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Forbes magazine, Wine
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End-of-the-Month Roundup
–Today’s New York Times has an article about people who choose to have portraits of their houses painted rather than photographed: While landscape portraiture became a common endeavor for artists centuries ago, homes were rarely the principal subjects of the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Portraits, Scoop, World War II
Tagged Aleteia.org, John Verney, Michael Parkinson, New Criterion, New York Times, Times newspaper
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OED Declares “Brideshead” an Adjective
In its June 2019 list of new words the Oxford English Dictionary declares “Brideshead” to be an adjective independent of Waugh’s novel. Here’s their entry and usage examples for the new word: Reminiscent of the style, characters, plot, etc., of … Continue reading
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Tagged New Words, Oxford English Dictionary
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Father’s Day Roundup
–In response to the feverish political activity in London, The Independent newspaper has composed a list of the Top 10 fictional Prime Ministers. While no Waugh character makes the top 10, he is awarded an Honourable Mention: Honourable mentions for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Remote People, Vile Bodies
Tagged Esquire, Harvard Magazine, St Francis Xavier, The Independent, The Spectator
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Roundup: Wavian Influences
–A long-neglected British artist named Frank Bowling is enjoying a renewal of interest in his work. This is led by a retrospective at the Tate Britain which opened on 31 May and continues through 26 August. Another smaller exhibit includes … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged American Conservative, Apollo Magazine, ArtNet News, Frank Bowling, John Betjeman, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Vampire Weekend, Washington Times
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