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Category Archives: Fiction
Roundup: 80th D-Day Anniversary
–The BBC posted an article on WWII parachute training in connection with its observance last week of the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings. Here’s an excerpt: …All the British paratroopers who landed in the early hours [of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Internet, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Frederic Raphael, OLL, The American Conservative, The Jewish Chronicle
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Two Interesting Offers: A Manuscript and a Letter
A Waugh manuscript is on offer on the ABE bookseller website. This is the three-page handwritten manuscript of the article entitled “Awake My Soul! It Is a Lord” that appeared in The Spectator on 8 July 1955. Here’s the description: … Continue reading
Posted in Autographs, Items for Sale, Letters, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Malcolm Muggeridge, Punch, The Spectator
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Roundup: Waugh’s Highclere Moments
—Tatler magazine has a story about Lady Carnarvon, resident of the country house that has been the setting for the TV series and films of Downton Abbey. Another of these is being produced. Here are the opening paragraphs of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Hoover Institution, Journal of European Studies, Tatler
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Bank Holiday/Memorial Day Roundup
–Novelist Kevin Kwan was recently interviewed in LitHub. This was on the occasion of last week’s issuance of his latest novel Lies and Weddings. Here’s the opening: Kevin Kwan’s much anticipated new novel, Lies and Weddings, is out today [21 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged ArabNews, BBC, LitHub, The Spectator, Vogue
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Mid-May Roundup
–The Italian language newspaper Il Manifesto has posted an article (“The ivory brush and the tabernacle”) on Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. This is written by Viola Pagetti. Here are slightly edited extracts translated (by Google) from the opening paragraphs: Having … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film: The Scarlet Woman, Internet, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television Programs, Translations
Tagged BBC, Il Manifesto, John Betjeman, The Bioscope, The Homebound Symphony
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Mothers’ Day (U.S.) Roundup
–An article in this week’s TLS (10 May 2024) marks the centenary of the 1924 novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen. He was something of a one hit wonder, as the article by Philip Ward explains. Here are some … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Helena, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Crisis magazine, Daily Telegraph, The Green Hat, TLS
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Roundup: A Florentine Dinner Party, Some Interviews and a Pub
–The latest issue of Catholic Herald includes an article about Evelyn Waugh. This is written by Mark Roberts and is taken from his recent book noted below. In it, he describes an unpleasant dinner party in Florence that Waugh attended … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged American Enterprise Institute, Bristol Post, Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Florentine Dinner Parties, New York Times, Tatler, TLS
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Oxford Seminar of Pinfoldian Interest
Oxford University has announced a seminar that may be of interest to Waugh scholars. It is open to current members of the university and is entitled “Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave.” It will be led … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Laura Marcus Workshop, Oxford University
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May Day Roundup
–In a recent report of the results of a football match between Manchester City and Real Madrid, the Guardian’s reporter Barney Ronay brings an Evelyn Waugh character into the discussion. Here’s the opening: It turns out Pep Guardiola was right … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Music, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Titchmarsh, America (Jesuit magazine), Evening Standard, The Guardian
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2023 Academic Papers
The following academic papers with Evelyn Waugh in their titles appeared during calendar 2023. Abstracts have been included where available: –Victoria Fernandez Ruiz, “Metaphorical value in the metaphor of conversion: The sacred and profane memories of Capt. Charles Ryder in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Love Among The Ruins, Sword of Honour
Tagged Harold Acton
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