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Category Archives: Fiction
Celebrities and Waugh: Roundup
The press is replete with celebrities citing Evelyn Waugh this week. In the Daily Express, actor Freddie Fox cited Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as one of his six favorite books: “Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint” is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Freddie Fox, Irish Times, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Prendlebury, Taki's Magazine, The Tatler
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Penguin Book Cover Exhibit Opens
An exhibit has opened at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft devoted to a Penguin Book “modern makeover by designers from the worlds of music, fashion and street art (including Banksy).” This began in 1998 and is explained by one … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged 20 Years of Penguin Essentials, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, John Hamilton, Penguin Books, The Independent
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New Year’s Roundup
A recent review in The Times of Tina Brown’s new book The Vanity Fair Diaries opens with this: “Where you see zippy, zesty lesbian Jewesses bubbling with new ideas, I see plodding, ill-mannered, bottomlessly earnest boobies . . . I do not … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Scoop, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Daily Mail, Guardian, honours list, Paul Bradbury, The Times, Tina Brown, Total Croatia News
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Helena and the Prayer for Epiphany
A Roman Catholic website called OnePeterFive has posted the conclusion of Chapter 11: Epiphany from Waugh’s novel Helena (Penguin, pp. 143-45). The post has appeared on other religious websites as well. This relates to Helena’s celebration of the Feast of … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Helena
Tagged CatholicCulture.com, Epiphany, OnePeterFive.com, Tolerance
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BBC Broadcast from Castle Howard Chapel
Last Sunday’s broadcast of the BBC Radio 4 program Sunday Worship came from the chapel of Castle Howard. The celebrant was the Right Reverend James Jones, retired Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, and his subject was “Responding to God’s Grace.” He … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Radio
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Bishop James Jones, Castle Howard
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Correspondence in Spectator re Waugh’s Oxford “Degree”
Alexander Waugh’s letter in the 25 November 2017 issue of The Spectator regarding the conclusion of his grandfather’s Oxford career has engendered a chain of responses comparable to those in which his grandfather used to engage. Alexander’s letter stated: “Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Dr Geoffrey Thomas, Peter Loring, The Spectator, Timothy O'Sullivan
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Waugh’s New Year in Dutch Journal
An Amsterdam newspaper has posted an article on an Evelyn Waugh New Year’s celebration. This is entitled “Brideshead is een diamant” (“Brideshead is a diamond”) by Willem Pekelder and is on the website of the newspaper Trouw. It was inspired … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Television
Tagged New Year's, Trouw de Verdieping, Willem Pekelder
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Autumn Issue of Society Journal
The Autumn 2017 issue of the society’s journal (Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 48.2) has been issued. The contents are posted below. The complete issue will be posted on the internet later this week: ARTICLES Paul Pennyfeather and the Victorian Governess: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged David Bittner, Donat Gallagher, Ellen O'Brien, Naomi Milthorpe, Robert Laycock, Robert Murray Davis
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Waugh and the Jellyfish
A recent travel guide includes a reference to Waugh’s fortuitous encounter with a jellyfish off the coast of Wales in 1925, where its intervention aborted Waugh’s attempted suicide. This guide is entitled Britain by the Book and is written by academic … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Wales
Tagged Jellyfish, Oliver Tearle, suicide
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