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Category Archives: The Loved One
Weekend Roundup: French Connections
In a Times review of Nina Caplan’s new book The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, reviewer Michael Henderson includes this as his opening: “O for a beaker full of the warm south!” Keats, who died in Rome, gave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Cyril Connolly, Financial Times, France, Maclean's Magazine, Sonia Orwell, The Times, Winston Churchill
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Greatest Writer of “Our” Generation ?
Literary critic, novelist and publisher Dr Stoddard Martin has written a review of Philip Eade’s biography which he turns into an assessment of Evelyn Waugh’s career and legacy. This is entitled “Class Act” and appears in The Quarterly Review, an … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Tagged Graham Greene, Philip Eade, Somerset Maugham, Stoddard Martin, The Quarterly Review
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Weekend Roundup–Friends at a Distance: Mitford/Waugh Letters
An article on the books blog The Captive Reader is effectively a new review of The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh first published in 1996. This is written by “Claire of Vancouver” and opens with this: Mitford and … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Letters, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged catholicism.org, Latin Mass, Lucy Beckett, Muriel Spark, Nancy Mitford, Robert Hickson, The Irish Times, TLS
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West Coast Waugh
The Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) has a review of Acorn TV’s DVD version of the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall. After a background of the novel’s writing and summary of the story, reviewer Brian Bromberger concludes with this: Director … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Acorn TV, Brian Bromberger, Caitlin Doughty, Robert McCrum, The Bay Area Reporter, The Spectator
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Waviana in the Book Trade
A Baltimore dealer has on offer an original Hollywood film script of Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One as written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. This is Royal Books on 25th St. This is a July 1964 draft of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Bibliophilia, Film, Items for Sale, The Loved One
Tagged Cambridge University Library Soecial Colections, John Gielgud, Royal Books, Terry Southern, William Burges
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Waugh’s Helena at the Museum of the Bible
A new institution has opened in Washington, DC. This is the Museum of the Bible. It is spread over eight floors of a purpose built structure and is reviewed in the the conservative journal Washington Free Beacon by Micah Meadowcraft. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One, Theater
Tagged GlamAdelaide.com.au, Guardian, Irish Times, Stuff.co.nz, The Museum of the Bible, Washington Free Beacon
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Interview with The Loved One’s Scriptwriter
The San Francisco Chronicle has reprinted an interview with scrptwriter Terry Southern from 28 October 1964. This would have been after he had finished the script for the film adaptation of The Loved One and perhaps while the film was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Terry Southern
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Russian Article on Waugh Available Online
Waugh scholar Irina Kabanova has written an article entitled “Evelyn Waugh and the USA”. This was published in December 2016 in the Russian language journal Literatura Dvukh Amerik (Literature of the Two Americas). It is now available online at this … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Edmund Campion, Helena, Research, The Loved One
Tagged Irina Kabanova, Literature of the Two Americas
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New Hollinghurst Novel Reviewed in Guardian
The Guardian reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel earlier this week. The review is by Alex Preston and opens with a link to a Waugh novel: Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Oxford, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Alex Preston, Guardian, Luke O'Neill, Mark Voger, NJ.com, University Times
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The Fruit of Whispering Glades
The TLS has published an article marking the centenary of the birth of Jessica Mitford, sister of Waugh’s friends Nancy, Diana and Deborah. The story (“Happy 100th Birthday, Decca”) is by Mark McGinness who has also recently written about Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Jessica Mitford, Mark McGinness, TLS
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