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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Simon Schama’s Guilty Pleasure
Historian, author and TV presenter Prof Simon Schama is interviewed by The Book Report column of the Toronto Globe and Mail. After identifying Tolstoy’s War and Peace as the book he has most reread (not too surprising for a historian), … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged First Things, Globe and Mail, Guardian, Peter Hitichins, Simon Schama
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Waugh Recommendation Resurfaces
An article posted on the booksblog The Literary Sisters recommends a 1953 novel which Evelyn Waugh had selected as a “best first novel” for 1953 in The Sunday Times: A largely forgotten novel now, Hugo Charteris’ A Share of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged Hugo Charteris, Radio Adelaide, The Literary Sisters, The Sunday Times, TLS
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Interview at Castle Howard
The Sunday Times published an interview earlier this month of Victoria Howard. She is described as the new chatelaine of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire where both the TV and cinema versions of Brideshead Revisited were filmed. She refuses to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Eleanor Doughty, Sunday Times, Victoria Howard
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Another Lygon and More Bridesheads
The Daily Mail has an article about a recently pubished diary kept by two early women undergraduates at St Hugh’s College, Oxford: Dorothy Hammonds and Margaret Mowll. Their diary starts in 1905 and describes the restricted lives of the Oxford … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Daily Mail, Independent Theatre Adelaide, Lygon family, St Hugh's College, Tom Stoppard Arcadia, University of Louisiana Lafayette
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Brideshead Film Emerges in Weinstein Scandal
In wake of the sexual harassment scandal involving US filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, the New York Post has reported an incident arising from the production of the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. In 2007, Weinstein visited the production on location … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Emma Thompson, Harvey Weinstein, Hayley Atwell, New York Post
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New Hollinghurst Novel Reviewed in Guardian
The Guardian reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel earlier this week. The review is by Alex Preston and opens with a link to a Waugh novel: Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Oxford, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Alex Preston, Guardian, Luke O'Neill, Mark Voger, NJ.com, University Times
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Julia’s Meltdown and the “Filial Correction”
The Catholic Herald has an article by its US editor Michael Davis in which he explains what is politely called the “filial correction” in Roman Catholic circles. This is a group which has written to the Pope explaining how he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged "filial correction", Catholic Herald, Michael Davis
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Waugh and the Country House (more)
Evelyn Waugh’s biographer Paula Byrne has reviewed the book House of Fiction by Phyllis Richardson in the current TLS. This book has been mentioned in several recent posts but Byrne focuses more closely on Richardson’s descriptions of Evelyn Waugh’s relations … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Country Houses, Paula Byrne, Phyllis Richardson, TLS
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Rex Mottram Redux
In his American Conservative magazine weblog, Senior Editor Rod Dreher has cited Waugh’s character Rex Mottram from Brideshead Revisited in connection with recent actions of President Trump. Dreher had previously adopted the term “Mottramism,” originally coined by Canadian Blogger, Mark Cameron, who … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Mark Cameron, Mottramism, Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
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