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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh’s Politics Surveyed in “The Critic”
The Critic magazine has published another article on Evelyn Waugh following hard on the short article by Eleanor Doughty dealing with Brideshead Revisited, discussed in two previous posts. The latest posting is a feature length article by Bruce Newsome who … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Bruce Newsome, Politics, The Critic
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Another Look at Brideshead (More)
This editorial message appeared in a recent TLS. It relates to the subject of Eleanor’s Doughty’s article in The Critic that was discussed in a previous post. Here is the opening section from the TLS: Edith Wharton was buried in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Middlebury College, The Critic, TLS
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Michaelmas Roundup
–Several religious journals carry a story by George Weigel about the elimination of the Papal States in the 19th century as part of Italy’s reunification. The article, as published in the interfaith journal First Things, opens with this: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, First Things, Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce, The Spectator
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Evelyn’s Last Dance
Duncan McLaren has posted two articles in his Brideshead Festival series in which Evelyn Waugh ponders the contents of the last two volumes of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. These are Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Men at Arms, Put Out More Flags, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Duncan McLaren
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Another Look at Brideshead
Literary critic Eleanor Doughty has taken another look at Brideshead Revisited on the occasion of the book’s 75th anniversary and doesn’t particularly like what she finds. This essay is published in The Critic and is entitled: “A little too mature: In … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged Eleanor Doughty, The Critic
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Roundup: Baby Jungman, Proust, Japan and Zeppelins
–Mark McGinness has written an obituary of Desmond Guinness for the Australian literary magazine Quadrant. In this he adds another Waugh connection not mentioned in the English and Irish papers. See previous post. After his marriage to his first wife … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Diaries, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged Desmond Guinness, Marcel Proust, Quadrant, Radio Times, Standpoint, Taichi Koyama, The Sinpapore Grip, WeaponsandWarfare.com
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Castle Howard Exhibition: Brideshead Revisited at 75
The Castle Howard website features a fully and handsomely illustrated exhibition of photos from the two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited and other related sources. This illustrates in part how the two adaptations are similar in some respects and how … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Television
Tagged Brideshead Revisited at 75, Castle Howard
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Presentation Copy of Brideshead On Offer
London booksellers Peter Harrington have a 1945 copy of Brideshead Revisited on offer. This is a presentation copy to Mgr Alfred Gilbey, chaplain to Roman Catholic students at Fisher House, Cambridge University. There is also an unpublished letter from Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Alfred Gilbey, Cambridge University, Peter Harrington Ltd
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Waugh’s Orwellian Dystopia
The Orwell Society has posted an interesting essay on the friendship of Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell with special reference to how Waugh’s 1953 novella Love Among the Ruins was intended as a response to Orwell’s 1948 novel 1984. This … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Love Among The Ruins
Tagged George Orwell, Richard Lance Keeble, The Orwell Society
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Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) R I P
The Daily Telegraph has an obituary of Ronald Harwood, noted primarily as a writer of screenplays based on adaptations of novels or plays. These adaptations include such well-received films as the Oscar-winning The Pianist (2003), One Day in the Life … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Theater
Tagged Ronald Harwood, The Daily Telegraph, The Times
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