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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Mixed Results for Waugh in Imaginary Booker Prize Competitions
The results are in from the competition at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to determine which book would have won the Booker prize for the year 1945 had there been one. Brideshead Revisited was on the shortlist and its case was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Booker Prize, Cheltenham Literature Feastival, Gloucestershire Live, London Review Bookshop
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Waugh Cited in Press Interviews
Several recent unrelated newspaper interviews mention Evelyn Waugh in the context of the careers of those interviewed. In the Catholic Herald, historical novelist Robert Harris talks about his latest novel Conclave. This has as its setting the selection of a Pope. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Ashok Ferrey, Catholic Herald, Daily News (Sri Lanka), Evening Standard, Kim Jones, Omega Workshops, Robert Harris
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Colossus of Snobbery
Critic and novelist D J Taylor has written a book inspired by William Thackeray entitled The New Book of Snobs, to be published later this month. An excerpt appears in the Daily Mail. This deals mostly with Taylor’s account of his own … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Daily Mail, postcodes, snobbery
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Oxford Hostelries Commemorate Waugh
According to a recent posting on travel blog Trip Advisor, there is a hotel bedroom named for Evelyn Waugh at the Head of the River. This is a pub and hotel located on St Aldate’s at Folly Bridge in Oxford. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Oxford, Sightings, Sword of Honour
Tagged Anthony Burgess, Eynsham Hall, Head of the River, Paul Doyle, Weblogs
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Et in Cantabrigia Ego
A Cambridge University student-sponsored news blog (The Tab) has published interviews with several incoming students. One seems to have gotten her ancient universities a bit mixed: Holly, History, Pembroke. “I applied to Cambridge under the illusion that I would have the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Oxford
Tagged Cambridge University, The Tab
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Lt Hooper Enters US Politics
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Tim Kaine, Democratic candidate for Vice President is likened to Waugh’s character Lt Hooper from his novel Brideshead Revisited: Though a bit character, [Hooper] plays an indispensible role. In his unquestioning embrace of the dominant pieties of his … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Tim Kaine, Wall Street Journal, William McGurn
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Bloggers List Waugh
Waugh and his works have appeared in several recent blogs. In listverse he was named in a list of “10 Pop Culture Moments We Owe To Animals.” That seems unlikely but here it is: Evelyn Waugh’s Suicide Attempt Was Ruined By … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Sightings
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Jellyfish, Weblogs
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BBC Rebroadcasts Brideshead Radio Adaptation
BBC Radio 4 Extra will rebroadcast the 4-episode series of Brideshead Revisited starting tomorrow (Tuesday, 4 October) at 10am. Each episode is 1 hour, and they will be broadcast on successive days at the same time each day until the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, Jeremy Front
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Waugh Character Models Surface in Blogs
Two of Waugh’s character models have surfaced in recent blogs. These are Brenda Dean Paul and Kate Meyrick. Dean Paul may have contributed to any number of characters in Vile Bodies. She was perhaps the most prominent of the Bright … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, London, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brenda Dean Paul, Bright Young People, Gordon Meyrick, Kate Meyrick, The 43
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