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Category Archives: The Loved One
Acedemic Roundup: Spring 2020
–The journal The University Scholar published by the University of Dallas, has included an essay on Waugh in its Fall 2019 issue (v. XX, No. 1, p. 48). Â This is entitled “An Animalistic Death Cult: Materialism and Religiosity in Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Academic Journals
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Joseph Crowley (1926-2020) R.I.P.
Joseph Crowley, Waugh’s friend and correspondent in the 1950s, died last month in Washington. Joe first encountered Waugh while an undergraduate at the University of Detroit in 1949. He crossed over to Windsor, Ontario, to hear Waugh lecture at Assumption … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Letters, Officers and Gentlemen, The Loved One
Tagged Joseph Crowley
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Waugh and the Coronavirus (more)
An estate owner in rural Shropshire called into The Times with a story suggesting that rather than being locked-down in London, those of its readers with sufficient funds might like to avail themselves of vacation lets on his estate which … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged The Catholic Thing, The Times, Wuhan Coronavirus
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The Loved One Meets the Wuhan Coronavirus
–A blogger posting as “Sapper” traces the influence of Waugh’s writing about Los Angeles in the post war 1940s to what may be the first of several New Yorker essays by English writer and satirist Geoff Dyer, now a resident … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Geoff Dyer, leafly.com, New Yorker, The American Conservative
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John Ivan Simon (1925-2019): R. I. P.
John Simon, one of America’s great critics of theatre and film died in November the age of 94. His death was widely noted, and this obituary excerpted from the New York Times is fairly representative: In a style that danced … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged John Simon, New York Times, Tablet Magazine
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Waugh’s New Year’s Eve 1947
The Herald (Glasgow) has a story about Scottish New Year celebrations (known as Hogmanay) that starts with this reference to an Evelyn Waugh novel. THERE’S a wonderful line about Hogmanay in Evelyn Waugh’s classic 1948 novel, The Loved One. Dennis Barlow, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Hogmanay, The Herald (Glasgow)
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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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Waugh and Huxley
Dr Gillian Dooley, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of English, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, has published a paper entitled “Love, Death and the Satirical Purpose: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One“. This originally appeared in Texture: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Dr Gillian Dooley
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Roundup: Witchcraft and Victory
–The Daily Telegraph reviews a new history of witchcraft since 1800 entitled Cursed Britain by Thomas Waters. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton and opens with this: The “Swahili witch doctor”, installed in rooms “off the Edgware Road” by the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, National Public Radio, Stream.org, Yorkshire Post
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New Study of Wartime Literary London Reviewed
The Sunday Times reviews the new book about Wartime and Postwar London by D J Taylor. This is entitled Lost Girls and will be issued in London early next month. A January 2020 publication date in the USA is planned. … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged D.J.Taylor, James Carey, The Sunday Times
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