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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh Letters to Richard Plunket Greene on Offer
Southeby’s has announced the auction of 10 letters from Evelyn Waugh, written while he was teaching at Arnold House School in North Wales. Here’s the description: 10 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, EIGHT TO RICHARD PLUNKET GREENE, ONE TO HIS MOTHER GWEN … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auctions, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Richard Plunket Greene, Southeby's
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Brideshead Anniversary Lecture in Austin
The British Studies Seminar of the University of Texas at Austin will host a lecture on Friday, 15 November on the subject of the serial version of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. The publication of that version took place 75 … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged British Studies, Town & Country magazine, University of Texas
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Armistice Day Roundup
— Fr John Hunwicke posting on his website addresses literary works related to the commemoration of Armistice Day (Remembrance Sunday in the UK): As far as WW2 is concerned, I often think about the contrast between two great fictional literary … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Events, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged English National Opera, Fr John Hunwicke, New York Public Library, New York Times, New Yorker
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Early November Roundup
–The Daily Mail reprints extracts from the gossipy personal diaries of journalist and biographer Kenneth Rose. These are from the second volume entitled Who Wins, Who Loses? covering the period 1979-2014: March 29, 1982. Geoffrey Warnock [Oxford vice-chancellor] tells me … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Mail, Kenneth Rose, Raritan, The Times, Washington Post
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300th Anniversary of English Novel to be Marked
This year is the 300th anniversary of the English novel–at least if one will accept Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe to be the first example, as seems to generally be the case. It was published on 25 April 1719. Other contenders … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Events, London, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, British Library, History Magazine
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St Austin Waugh Issue
The latest issue of the bi-monthly religious literary journal St Austin Review (November/ December 2019) is entitled “Brideshead & Beyond: The Genius of Evelyn Waugh.” The Waugh-related content is described as follows: Joseph Pearce admires “the genius of Evelyn Waugh”. John … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Journal
Tagged St Austin Review
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Halloween Roundup
–The London Review of Books in its latest issue has published an article by Rosemary Hill on the life and career of Auberon Waugh. This is entitled “Woof, woof” and includes a description of Auberon’s life from the time he … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daniel Mendelsohn, Hillsdale College, London Review of Books, National Portrait Gallery, New Criterion, Rosemary Hill
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Samuel Hynes (1924-2019) R.I.P.
Another veteran American literary scholar and critic died earlier this month at Princeton . This was Samuel Hynes, WWII veteran fighter pilot and retired Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He was 95. His best known critical work … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged New York Times, Samuel Hynes
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Waugh’s Birthday Roundup
Evelyn Waugh was born on this date in 1903. This is the 116th anniversary of that event. –The Oxford English Dictionary has declared today’s Word of the Day to be “Brideshead, adj.” While they do not mention the birthday anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged architecture, Bruce Gaston, Fooshya.com, Oxford English Dctionary, Paul Theroux, Philip Eade, Truthdig.com
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