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Category Archives: Fiction
Gabbitas & Waugh
The educational consultants known as Gabbitas have included the following historical description in their internet prospectus: Gabbitas has been involved with Independent Education for over 145 years. We have helped with the education of the British royal family, crowned heads … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Gabbitas, The Economist, The Spectator
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Midweek Roundup
–The New York Times reviews a new book about Los Angeles. This is David Kipen’s anthology, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018. According to the review this isn’t exactly a “rescue mission” for the much … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Alfred Duggan, Allan Massie, Catholic Herald, Los Angeles, Lucinda Riley, National Catholic Register, New York Times, The Sunday Times (South Africa)
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–Author William Giraldi contributed an essay to Commonweal magazine as part of a series in which Roman Catholic intellectuals explain why they have left or remained in the church. A Catholic from birth, his article was posted on the magazine’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop
Tagged Catholic Herald, Commonweal, Daily Express, Literary Hub, Money Week, Stephanie Mann, William Geraldi
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Update: Patrick Balfour Copies
Bonhams has posted additional information regarding the sale of Patrick Balfour’s inscribed copies of several books by Evelyn Waugh. See previous post.: • An author’s presentation copy of Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning published in 1964. The book is accompanied … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bonhams, Patrick Balfour
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Bullying in the House?
In the 1960 BBC interview of Evelyn Waugh in the Face to Face series, presenter John Freeman posed a series of questions about Waugh’s career at Oxford. Among them are these relating to his children: Q. Are any of your … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Christ Church, Guardian
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Books: Waugh and Trump and Amis
This week’s New York Review of Books has as its lead review a book by Michael Lewis called The Fifth Risk. This is is about governmental dysfunction in the present USA administration and is reviewed by Fintan O’Toole, who opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Ben Macintyre, Boston Globe, Frances Donaldson, Kingsley Amis, New York Review of Books
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Oxford Trails and Roman Holidays
The Oxford Mail has reported the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibit No Offence: Exploring LGBTQ+ Histories and notes an adjunct: …the exhibition traverses epochs and continents, deftly showing the numerous ways in which LGBTQ+ lives and loves have been expressed across cultures … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ashmolean Museum, James Delingpole, LGBTQ+ trail, Oxford Mail, Spectator
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Waugh’s Signature, Favorite Dublin Pub, Lost in Translation, Etc.
–Duncan McLaren has posted a short note on Waugh’s change in his signature at an early stage in his career. This is posted on his website under WAUGH BITES. McLaren is able to triangulate that change in the early 1930’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Crisis magazine, Dincan McLaren, Dublin pubs
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Post-Election Roundup
Having recovered from the news deluge of the USA midterm elections, we can now return to coverage of matters Wavian: –The big story in British journalism earlier this week was Paul Dacre’s valedictory address as editor of the Daily Mail, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Herald (Chicago), Daily Mail, History Today, Image, kedgeree, Paul Dacre, Radio Spada
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