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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Jonkers Issue Waugh Catalogue
Jonkers Books of Henley-on-Thames have issued a 70-page illustrated catalogue exclusively devoted to books and writings by Evelyn Waugh and his friends. Here’s a link to the online edition which is limited to books or other writings by Waugh or to which he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Bill Deakin, Fitzroy Maclean, Jonkers Books, Yugoslavia
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El Pais Chronicles Brideshead TV Generation
A feature article in the Spanish language newspaper El Pais chronicles the generation of party goers inspired by the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited: In his first scene, Sebastian appears vomiting through an open window. Margaret Thatcher had been living in Downing … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Television
Tagged Dafydd Jones, El Pais
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TLS Reviews Waugh Books
The latest TLS has a review of the two recently published books about Evelyn Waugh by Ann Pasternak Slater and Philip Eade. The review, entitled “Horrors of Waugh”, is available to read on the internet. It is written by journalist … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Philip Eade, TLS, Violet Hudson
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Guardian Includes The Loved One in Top 10 Hollywood Novels
The Guardian in this week’s “Top 10” books column considers books about Hollywood. Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One is among those selected by Tim Walker who has himself just finished his own contribution to the genre (Smoke Over Malibu). … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Greg Sheridan, Guardian, The Australian, Tim Weeks
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Paula Byrne to Appear at Highclere and Other Waugh News
Biographer Paula Byrne (author of Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009)) will appear in a program entitled “Literature and Landscapes” to be held at Highclere Castle near Newbury, Berkshire, in May. The venue is better known as the … Continue reading
Wrong Waugh
The interactive internet site Ranker has started a new rating survey in which Evelyn Waugh is included. A previous posting has him under consideration for the rating of Best Roman Catholic Author, in which he is currently listed as #3. See previous post … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Lancing, Television
Tagged Arthur Waugh, Ranker, Sherborne School
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Decline and Fall of the Bullingdon Club
This week’s Spectator has a feature article and podcast by Harry Mount on the parlous straits of Oxford’s Bullingdon Club. He confesses to having been a member himself but seems open minded about its likely demise: It isn’t quite dead — … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Oxford, Television
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Dusty Springfield, Harry mount, Katherine Kingsley, Spectator
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Waugh Quoted in Bruising Battle of Cardinals
A story in Catholic World Review by Edward Peters, described elsewhere as a Canon Law expert, opens with a quote from Brideshead Revisited to describe a doctrinal dispute between two Vatican officials: Evelyn Waugh’s character Charles Ryder described his friend … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Catholic World Report
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News Bomb
As the concern over fake news spreads, an online newspaper in Chile has joined others in recommending Waugh’s Scoop. See earlier posts. This appears in a column “VerComeryLeer [SeeEatRead]” by Miguel Ortiz in the digital journal El Definido: We are being … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged El Definido, Fake News, Noticia Bomba
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Waugh in the News
Several papers have alluded to Evelyn Waugh or his works in recent stories: The Irish Times has an article in its “London Letter” column inspired by an interview with David Hockney in which the artist expressed his acquiescence in if not outrught support … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bild, Brexit, Daily Telegraph, Gay Times, Guardian, Irish Times
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