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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Another Brideshead Birthday Greeting
Today’s Daily Telegraph carries another article by Eleanor Doughty marking the 70th anniversary of Brideshead Revisited‘s publication on May 28, 1945. The article begins by discussing models used by Waugh for characters in the novel, breaking no new ground in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Derek Granger, Eleanor Doughty, Harry mount
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Lord Marchmain and the 7th Earl
The Guardian earlier this week ran a review of a book by Michael Bloch entitled Closet Queens. This is a history of homosexuals in English politics before 1967 when the criminality of homosexuality was ended. One of the lives considered … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Powell, Guardian, Lord Marchmain, Michael Bloch, William Lygon
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Brideshead 70th Anniversary Marked in Press
Several print publications and other news media carried brief stories yesterday marking the 70th anniversary of the U.K. publication of Brideshead Revisited on May 28, 1945. Here’s a link to one in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. The Times newspaper … Continue reading
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Major Study of Waugh’s Post War Works to be Released This Week
Ashgate Publishing has announced the release later this week of a major study of Waugh’s later fiction. This is The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post War Fiction. The book is by Marcel DeCoste, Associate Professor of English … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Love Among The Ruins, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Ashgate Publishing, Marcel Decoste, The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh
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Waugh Recognized as Expert on Style
In yesterday’s Guardian, Waugh is named twice by novelist and bibliophile Joseph Connolly in his list of Top 10 books on the topic of “style.” Connolly (no apparent relation to Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly a/k/a Everard Spruce) names Brideshead Revisited as … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Miscellaneous, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Allan Massie, Black Velvet, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Joseph Connolly, Noblesse Oblige
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Plashy fen and leprechaun-flavoured wine
Waugh scored a twofer in last week’s Telegraph with citations relating to both nature and food writing. On March 30, Waugh’s parody of nature writing in Scoop is cited by Robert Macfarlane in an interview as an example of what that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Jane Shilling, Nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, Telegraph newspaper, Wine
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Cousin Jasper Cited in Cambridge Varsity
The Cambridge University student paper, Varsity, has cited Jasper Ryder’s advice to his cousin Charles on how to succeed at Oxford: “You want either a first or a fourth. There is no value in anything between. Time spent on a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall
Tagged architecture, Cambridge University, City Journal, Jasper Ryder, Otto Silenus, Oxford University, Varsity
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Brideshead Tops Telegraph’s List of TV Book Adaptations
On the occasion of the BBC’s broadcast of its adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels (taking its title from the first, Wolf Hall), the Daily Telegraph published its list of what it considers the top 20 TV adaptations of all … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Granada TV
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Memoir of EWS’s Honorary President Published
David Lodge, the Society’s Honorary President, has written the first volume of his memoirs. This was published in the UK this week under the title Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-1975. An international edition is promised … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh Society, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Robbery Under Law, Television Programs
Tagged D.J.Taylor, David Lodge, Financial Times, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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