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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Another Private Chapel Story
The Times reports that singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran plans to build a private chapel near his home in Suffolk. This seems to be becoming a trend. See earlier posts. The article by Libby Purves opens with a reference to a Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Ed Sheeran, Private Chapels, The Times
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Roundup: Brideshead Matters
In an article posted on National Catholic Register, Joseph Pearce considers whether education still matters and concludes that it should but doesn’t always manage. In order to matter, education must teach the truth as revealed in the wisdom of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Edith Sitwell, Evening Standard, Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register, Rupert Everett, The Tablet
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Aston Clinton Profiled on Country House Website
The estate of Aston Clinton, associated with Evelyn Waugh in the 1920s, is profiled on the website of House and Heritage.org, maintained by David Poole. The estate became well-known thanks to its ownership by a member of the Rothschild family … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Chattels & Movables, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society
Tagged Aston Clinton, House and Heritage.org, Piers Court
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Evelyn Waugh and Simon Raven
In his Daily Mail weblog, Peter Hitchens wonders whether the popularity of the recent BBC series on the Jermy Thorpe scandal might presage a revival of the Alms for Oblivion novels by one of his favorite under-read authors, Simon Raven: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, Simon Raven
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Roundup: From All Over
A story in a recent edition of The Print, a New Delhi-based digital newspaper specializing in political reporting, likens the journalistic coverage of the recent Russian hacking scandal to the war coverage described in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Independent (Ireland), The National (Abu Dhabi), The Print (India), The Week
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A Tale of Two Venues: Chagford and Beckley
Two of Waugh’s favorite writing venues have recently been in the news. An article on the Easton Court Hotel in Chagford, South Devon, was recently posted on the website jot101.com. This begins with a description of the facilities in wartime … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Vile Bodies
Tagged Abingdon Arms, Easton Court Hotel, jot101.com, Oxford Mail
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Updates: Brideshead Tonite
The Daily Telegraph offers this rather downbeat description in its TV schedules of the 2008 Brideshead Revisited film adaptation: In the light of the 1981 TV version of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, you do have to admire the chutzpah of anyone else giving … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, El Pais, The Oldie
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Philip Roth (1933-2018)
The death was announced earlier this week of the American novelist Philip Roth. Like Tom Wolfe, who died the preceding week, much of his early work was written in the comic, satirical tradition of Evelyn Waugh. So far, however, no … Continue reading
Brideshead at the Mille Miglia
Columnist and humorist writing as Don Alphonso reports in the weblog of the German paper Der Welt about his visit to this year’s Mille Miglia Storica event in Italy. This is an annual vintage car rally based on an auto … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Der Welt, Don Alphonso, Mille Miglia, Rainer Meyer, vintage car rallies
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