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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Roundup: Waugh in Publishing
Amazon is offering a new book by London-based playwright and singer-songwriter Roy Smiles. This is entitled Waugh in Winter and is the text of a play which is built around Waugh’s persona. According to the book description: Waugh in Winter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Chicago Review Press, Dans le manoir aux livres, Editions Robert Laffont, Elsa Lanchester, Irish Times, Roy Smiles, The Scarlet Woman, Town and Country
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Waugh Underground
The digital/print magazine Mental Floss has reposted a 2016 story about Waugh’s contribution to the successful HBO TV series from the early 2000’s entitled Six Feet Under. This told the stories of a family in the funeral business. According to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged America, E M Forster, Esquire, Mental Floss, Six Feet Under
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Weekend Roundup: Waugh in the Book Reviews
The Daily Telegraph reviews a book by Julie Summers entitled Our Uninvited Guests about the wartime use of British country houses to shelter evacuated refugees from the bombed out cities or provide military bases. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged America, Bob Dylan, Daily Telegraph, Margaret Millar, Mark Twain, Ross McDonald, Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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From African Kleptocracy to Spark’s Legacy
A feature length article in the Australian edition of the Spectator deals with the political flap over policy toward immigration of white South African farrmers into Australia. This is entitled “Kleptocracy on the Cape” by Thomas Jones and opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Africa, Guardian, Leo Robson, Muriel Spark, New Statesman, Rachel Cooke, Spectator (Australia)
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Weekend Roundup: From Sword of Honour to Women of Knossos
In a recent issue of The Australian, Greg Sheridan writes about how his countrymen should deal with the shame of the recent cricket cheating scandal. This is entitled “National brand needs tending, not tears.” As an example of how the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Labels, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Boris Izaguirre, El Huffpost, kath.net, The Australian, The National Review, Weekly Standard
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“Mr Waugh’s Cities” Posted on Internet
A link to Prof Frank Kermode’s essay from Encounter magazine for November 1960 has been posted on the internet. This is entitled “Mr Waugh’s Cities” and is about Waugh’s views on religion as reflected in his fiction up to The … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Useful Links
Tagged Encounter magazine, Frank Kermode, Unz Review
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Travelers’ Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was well known as a travel writer and two foreign newspapers have cited his work in their recent travel columns. In the Kenyan newspaper, Daily Nation, columnist John Fox pulled out an old, unread copy of Waugh’s last … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Daily Nation, Die Welt, Kenya
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Brideshead Actress Dies in France
Actress Stéphane Audran who played Cara in the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisited has died in France at the age of 85. She was married at one time to new wave film director Claude Chabrol and at another, … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures, London, Newspapers
Tagged Brunel University London, Country Houses, Daily Express, Shakespeare, Spear's magazine, Stephane Audran, Vogue, weddings
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Waugh Biographer Target of Poison Pen
Paula Byrne, is well known in this parish for her 2009 “partial life” of Waugh, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. She has also appeared and submitted papers at two Waugh conferences, one of which was notably presented in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Daily Mail, Jonathan Bate, Paula Byrne, poison pen letters, Richard Brook, Sunday Times
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