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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Latest Evelyn Waugh Studies Available
The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been issued. This is No. 48.1 (Spring 2017) and is available at this link. The contents are set out below: ARTICLES Et in Chatsworth Ego? by Peter J. Comerford Guy’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Ann Pastrnak Slater, Elizabeth Bowen, Nicolas Poussin, Peter J Comerford, Robert Murray Davis
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The Bolthole and the Beast
Both the Financial Times and the Guardian have stories this weekend based on Waugh’s writngs. They are also mentioned prominently in two Australian papers. Writing in the FT, Janan Ganesh sees what may be the passing of the middle class longing … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged country house, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Guardian, Spectator (Australia), The Age
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Waugh and the New Perfumes
As reported in the Daily Mail, a new line of perfumes is being marketed by a company called Deco London. According to their Creative Director, Sophie Fannon-Howell: Her six Eau de Parfums capture the elegance, glamour and frivolity of the Roaring Twenties, … Continue reading
Opera on Life of Siegfried Sassoon to Debut
The Guardian reports on the debut of an opera based on the life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon this weekend at the Garsington Opera in Buckinghamshire. Waugh and Sassoon were contemporaries but not friends, although they were connected through their … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Guardian, Joanna Moorhead, Opera, Ronald Knox, Siegfried Sassoon, Sister Jessica Gatty, Stephen Tennant
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Powell Society Papers Include Two about Waugh
The Anthony Powell Society has recently published the Proceedings of its 2016 Conference in York. There are two papers in this collection that relate directly to the writings of Evelyn Waugh. The titles and abstracts of these papers are set forth … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell Society, Castle Howard, Henry Green, Proceedings of York Conference 2016
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Arcadia and Country Houses (More)
The BBC Radio 3 broadcast of the Words and Music episode on the subject of “Arcadia” is now available on the internet at this link. It is more music than words, and if you want to know source of either, you … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 3, Laura Freeman, Phyllis Richardson, Times newspaper, Words and Music
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Telegraph Reviews Opening of Waugh Art Exhibit
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibit next week at Maggs Bros booksellers relating to Waugh’s work as a graphic artist, Michael Bird reviews his career in that field in today’s Sunday Telegraph. After describing Waugh’s movement from modernist iconoclast to opponent of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged EW Pinxit, Maggs Bros booksellers, Michael Bird, Sunday Telegraph
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Waugh and Country Houses
There have been several recent articles that mention Evelyn Waugh in connection with English country houses: Carlton Towers. As noted in a recent post, this house was the setting of Hetton Abbey in the 1980s film version of A Handful of … Continue reading
Et in Arcadia Ego (More)
The Latin phrase that Waugh used for the first chapter of Brideshead Revisited (“Et in Arcadio Ego”) was mentioned in a recent post in connection with Paul Theroux’s humorous allusion to it in his recent novel Mother Land. Since that was … Continue reading
Waugh in Mother Land
Mother Land is the latest novel of Paul Theroux whose career has many similarities to that of Evelyn Waugh. Both made their living exclusively from writing after beginning as school teachers. Theroux’s teaching career began in the Peace Corps on … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Sightings
Tagged Alex Clark, Mother Land, Observer, Paul Theroux
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