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Category Archives: Fiction
Brideshead Catholics and the Last Altar Boy
In the Roman Catholic news website cruxnow.com there is an article by Fr Dwight Longenecker about various nostalgic tendencies within the church: … conservative Catholics long for a pre-Conciliar Church of the Latin Mass and old devotions. Liberals often dream of a return … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged cruxnow.com, Fr Dwight Longenecker, Greg Craven, Jonkers Books, Muriel Spark, The Australian
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Half an Hour with Evelyn Waugh
One of our readers and a member of the EWS kindly submitted the report below of her recent Waugh-themed visit to Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. Half an Hour with Evelyn Waugh: ‘Brideshead Scenes Revisited’ at Castle Howard by Milena … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Film
Tagged Castle Howard, Milena Borden
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Penguin Classic Brideshead Gets New Cover
Penguin UK has reissued the Penguin Modern Classics paperback edition of Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited with a new cover. This is part of a redesign of this line of books adopted earlier this year: In 2017, the [Penguin Modern Classics] series … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Penguin Books UK
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Virginia’s Little Problem
An article on the anti-abortion website LifeSite News considers descriptions of abortions in literature and notes, not surprisingly, that most of them are rather down beat. This is written by Jonathan Van Maren and is entitled “There are no happy … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged abortions, Jonathan Van Maren, LifeSite News
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New Novels with Wavian Undercurrents
Two new novels have been credited in reviews with having been influenced by the writings of Evelyn Waugh. In the Spectator, Elizabeth Day’s fourth novel The Party is described in a review by Helen Brown as beginning with the hero’s Arriving at … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Quinn, Elizabeth Day, iNews, Spectator
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Alan Hollinghurst on Henry Green (and Evelyn Waugh)
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst has reviewed several of Henry Green’s novels (the first six, I believe) in New York Review of Books. This is in connection with the republication of Green’s books by the NYRB’s book subsidiary. In addition to the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Henry Green, New York Review of Books
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Leigh Fermor Novel Reprinted
New York Review Books has republished the only novel of Patrick Leigh Fermor. This was originally published in 1953 and was entitled The Violins of Saint Jacques. It is about a fictional Caribbean island where a volcano erupts and disrupts … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Helena, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Diana Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roderick Beaton, TLS
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Alec Waugh Remembered
The current issue of The Oldie has a memoir by Alexander Waugh of his Uncle Alec. He was known in the family as “Uncle Sex” and the memoir is written on the 100th anniversary of the publication of his novel … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Mail, Rachel Johnson, The Oldie
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In Search of Arcadia
In several recent posts we have considered the concept of “Arcadia” and its contribution to Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, and vice versa. BBC Four earlier this week transmitted a documentary entitled “In Search of Arcadia” presented by Dr Janina Ramirez and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, In Search of Arcadia, Janina Ramirez
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Telegraph Names Brideshead Among Top TV Costume Dramas
On the occasion of ITV’s announcement of a new TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the Daily Telegraph has produced an album from what its fashion editors consider the most sumptuous costume dramas of all time. Granada’s 1981 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television, Twitter
Tagged costume dramas, Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, Paul Salopek, quotations
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