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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Labor Day Roundup
—Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington has announced a Fall schedule of literary podcasts and other activities. One of these features a four-hour discussion of Brideshead Revisited in two separate podcast episodes. Here is their description: One of the most … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Podcast
Tagged New Statesman, Politics and Prose Bookstore, The Irish Times, The Spectator
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Mid-July Roundup
–British author, commentator and journalist Gerald Warner has posted an article entitled “Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell–visions of a vanished Britain.” In this he compares the lives and writings of the two authors who were also friends in real life. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Photographs, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alistair Graham, Anthony Powell, Caledonian Road, Daily Telegraph, Eucharistic Congress, Foreign Policy, Gerald Warner, Nicholas Lezard
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Roundup: An Election, a Film and a Lost Masterpiece.
—The Sunday Times has a story (7 July) in which Will Lloyd considers whether the recent election has brought social mobility back to the the British government and ended the domination of the “posh boys” who were the leaders of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Helena, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Aleteia, Rex Whistler, Sunday Times, The Mitford Sisters, The Oldie, The Tatler
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General Election Roundup
—The Oldie has posted an article by A N Wilson commenting on elections with particular reference to the one scheduled for next week in the UK. Here’s an excerpt where he is reminded of Evelyn Waugh’s position on that subject: … Continue reading
Roundup: Two Letters and a Vase
—The Spectator has an article by Dot Wordsworth that features a misattribution to Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the opening: ‘Evelyn Waugh,’ said my husband when I asked who came up with the analogy of carrying a Ming vase. He was, in … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford, World War II
Tagged New York Times, Sotheby's, The Guardian, The Spectator
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Roundup: Shopping Lists, Inheritance and a Lecture
–The auction house Bonham’s has on offer an unusual example of Wavian memorabilia. Here’s their description: Collection of 24 autograph postcards (from Piers Court), and 3 letters signed by Waugh (22 “E.W.”, 2 “Evelyn Waugh”, 3 unsigned) to Mrs. [Sylvia] … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Lancing, Lectures, Letters
Tagged Bonhams, Castle Howard, The Times
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Roundup: 80th D-Day Anniversary
–The BBC posted an article on WWII parachute training in connection with its observance last week of the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings. Here’s an excerpt: …All the British paratroopers who landed in the early hours [of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Internet, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Frederic Raphael, OLL, The American Conservative, The Jewish Chronicle
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Roundup: Waugh’s Highclere Moments
—Tatler magazine has a story about Lady Carnarvon, resident of the country house that has been the setting for the TV series and films of Downton Abbey. Another of these is being produced. Here are the opening paragraphs of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Hoover Institution, Journal of European Studies, Tatler
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Bank Holiday/Memorial Day Roundup
–Novelist Kevin Kwan was recently interviewed in LitHub. This was on the occasion of last week’s issuance of his latest novel Lies and Weddings. Here’s the opening: Kevin Kwan’s much anticipated new novel, Lies and Weddings, is out today [21 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged ArabNews, BBC, LitHub, The Spectator, Vogue
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Mid-May Roundup
–The Italian language newspaper Il Manifesto has posted an article (“The ivory brush and the tabernacle”) on Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. This is written by Viola Pagetti. Here are slightly edited extracts translated (by Google) from the opening paragraphs: Having … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film: The Scarlet Woman, Internet, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television Programs, Translations
Tagged BBC, Il Manifesto, John Betjeman, The Bioscope, The Homebound Symphony
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