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Category Archives: Fiction
Part 2 of BBC Arena Trilogy Posted
Part 2 of the BBC Arena’s Waugh Trilogy has been posted on YouTube. This is entitled “From Mayfair to the Jungle” and covers the 1930s continuing through the war to Brideshead Revisited. Those interviewed include William Deedes, Dorothy Lygon, John … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Interviews, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC Arena, Waugh Trilogy Part 2, YouTube
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New Service on Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway
The New York Times has announced opening of service on the new railway line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa (including videos of opening ceremony and trains): The 10:24 a.m. train out of Djibouti’s capital drew some of the biggest names … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Djibouti, Ethiopia, New York Times, Railroads
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Walmer Castle and the Lygons
An article is posted on the website of Historic England (formerly known as English Heritage) about the Lygon family’s association with Walmer Castle in Kent. The article is part of the website’s promotion of sites in the care of Historic England that have LGBTQ … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Historic England, Lord Beauchamp, Lygon family, Walmer Castle
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Waugh Sites
Several newspapers have recently recommended visits to sites in England that have been associated with Evelyn Waugh. The Daily Telegraph in its Property column has a fairly detailed description of Renishaw Hall. Although still owned and occupied by the Sitwell … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Decline and Fall, Labels, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Daily Telegraph, Irish Examiner, Madresfield Court, Renishaw Hall, SomersetLive.com
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Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Living
Novelist Adam Thirlwell has written an article in The Nation on Henry Green’s early novel Living (1929), citing, inter alia, the importance of Evelyn Waugh to the novel’s success: [Green] had written one of the most radical novels of his era. It … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Adam Thirlwell, Bookforum, Henry Green, Sarah Nicole Prickett, The Nation
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Scoop and “Fake News”
There have been several references to Waugh’s Scoop in the wake of the new concern with “fake news” arising from present US political turmoil. As anyone familiar with Waugh’s novel will know, this is not a new phenomenon. Perhaps the most poignant … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Bill Turnbull, Daily Mail, Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, Ronald E Yates
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Rolle’s Ramblings (More)
Elisa Rolle, chronicler of the LGBT community in a series of books describing their lives and locations, has posted from her books another entry mentioning Evelyn Waugh. See earlier post. This is from Queer Places, v 2 (2016) and describes the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, London
Tagged A.L. Rowse, Canonbury Square, Elisa Rolle, Hugh Lygon, LGBT Community
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Brideshead and Silence
Japanese author Shusaku Endo, a Roman Catholic, wrote a novel entitled Silence (1966) that has recently been adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese. The book seems generally to be considered Endo’s masterpiece. The story is about Jesuit missionaries sent out in the 16th century … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Martin Scorsese, Shusaku Endo, Silence, The Christian Review, The Power and the Glory, The Tablet
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Emma Tennant (1937-2017): Latter-day BYP
Novelist Emma Tennant has died at the age of 79. She was a prolific writer, leaving an oeuvre of over 45 books. She was also founder and editor of a 1970s literary magazine known as Bananas. Although she wrote in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Emma Tennant, Stephen Tennant, The Times newspaper
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NYRB Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of the New York Review of Books has a review of Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by John Banville and is entitled “The Strange Genius of the Master.” Banville also named Eade’s book as … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Garry Wills, John Banville, NYRB, Philip Eade, Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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