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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Charles Ryder’s Van Gogh
Laura Freeman writing in The Times previews an upcoming exhibit at the Tate Britain. This is Van Gogh in Britain and relates to that artist’s residence in England between 1873-1876. He was not yet an artist at that time (this had … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged Laura Freeman, Tate Britain, The Times, Vincent Van Gogh
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Early March Roundup
–Laura Freeman writing in the Daily Telegraph (27 February) surveys children’s books and discovers that one of her favorites has been rated as having a “really high difficulty level.” This is Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men series and she sees the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph, Eastern Eye, Gay Star News, Laura Freeman, Literary Hub, Oxford Times, Roger Hargreaves, The Scotsman
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Brideshead Theme in Syfy TV Series
The internet newspaper Vox.com has posted an article about a long-running TV series on the Syfy Channel. This is based on the fantasy novels of Lev Grossman called The Magicians Trilogy and is now in its fourth season on Syfy. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Lancashire Telegraph, Lev Grossman, Lytham Hall, Syfy Channel, The Magicians Trilogy, Vox.com
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Compton Mackenzie Reconsidered
In the wake of the recent New Statesman essay seeking to revive an interest in JB Priestley, the latest New Criterion has published one seeking to create a renewed interest in another neglected novelist of the same period. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Compton Mackenzie, David Platzer, New Criterion, Sinister Street
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Roundup
–Two posts independently made the same point earlier this week relating to Jewish-American writer Chaim Potok. Potok wrote mostly of the Orthodox Hassidic Jewish community. The first notice appeared on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: When he was about 14 years … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged BBC History Magazine, Chaim Potok, Country Houses, Henry VI, Irish Times, Max Hastings, The Times
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Some Waugh-Themed Entertainments
–Merton College, Oxford and the Lennox Berkeley Society have announced an afternoon program of lecture and music: “To celebrate Lennox Berkeley’s four years as an undergraduate at Merton (1922–6), and to mark the thirtieth anniversary of his death.” This will … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Brideshead Obliterated, Dixon Place, Elise LeBreton, Lennox Berkeley Society, Selina Hastings, The Scarlet Woman
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Autograph Post Card Sold on E-bay
A 1954 handwritten but unsigned post card from Evelyn Waugh to Gerald Matthews (described as a sports journalist) was recently sold on E-bay. The post card is postmarked 2 July 1954 and reads: “Chokey was a minor character who had … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged E-bay, Gerald Matthews
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Presidents Day Roundup
–An article in the current issue of Prospect Magazine wonders when contemporary writers will learn how to successfully incorporate text messages into fiction narratives. By way of background, the article by Jemma Slingo explains how Evelyn Waugh pioneered the technique … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Herald, China Rhyming, Daily Telegraph, Isabella Hanger, Max Beerbohm, Monterey County Weekly, Patrick Kurp, Prospect Magazine, The Oldie
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Midwinter Roundup
–One of our readers Bruce Gaston contributed this item: Early every morning on BBC Radio 4 there is a short item called “Tweet of the Day”, which is actually about birdsong. Today’s bird was the Great Crested Grebe. The continuity … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged AM730 (Hong Kong), BBC Radio 4, Bruce Gaston, Church Life Journal, Dawn Powell, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pasadena Star-Telegram, Sigrid Unset, Visual Arts Source
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Waugh’s “Hungry Novels” in TLS
Literary journalist and critic Laura Freeman writes in this week’s TLS of a subgenre she defines as the “hungry novels” which flourished in the 1940s-50s. Her essay opens with an extended reference to the scene in Brideshead Revisited where Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Put Out More Flags, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Hungry Novels, Laura Freeman, TLS
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