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Category Archives: Vile Bodies
Bright Young People Re-illuminated
There are several stories in the press about the “Bright Young People” inspired by next Thursday’s opening of the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery mentioned in several previous posts. The most interesting of these is by Hugo … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Events, London, Newspapers, Photographs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, National Portrait Gallery
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Shrove Tuesday Roundup
–The BBC has announced plans to release a collection of audio recordings of Jeremy Front’s radio adaptations of several works by Evelyn Waugh. This will include Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall as well as several others not identified specifically … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, LitHub.com, Sally Rooney, The Times
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Nancy Mitford Joins Waugh Pantheon
In his latest posting, Duncan McLaren has Nancy Mitford join Evelyn Waugh’s friends gathering for the imagined reunion at the upcoming Brideshead Festival at Castle Howard. See previous posts. In this entry, Mitford muses over her first two novels (Highland … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Vile Bodies
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Nancy Mitford
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Waugh in “The Mitford Scandal”
The Mitford Scandal by Jessica Fellowes, was published last month in New York, following earlier publication in the UK. This is the third book in a series that places the Mitford sisters in the midst of fictional mysteries that occur … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Vile Bodies
Tagged Diana Mitford, The Mitford Scandal
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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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Reading Dickens in the Jungle, et al.
–An article has been posted on Academia.edu entitled “Reading Dickens in the Jungle: A Handful of Dust and Mr Pip.” This is by Alessandro Vescovi, professor of English at the Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan). It previously appeared … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Articles, Vile Bodies
Tagged Academia.edu, Alessandro Vescovi, Ashley Maher, Charles Dickens, Journal of Modern Literature, Marius Hentea, Texas Studies in Literature and Language
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Year End Roundup
—The Australian has a story headed by a photo of Evelyn Waugh. The story is by Greg Harrison and is entitled “Our prime ministers need a holiday–and time to read a novel for pleasure.” After noting his disagreement with those who … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martha Stewart, National Catholic Register, Sunday Telegraph, The Australian, The Spectator
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Socialites to Socialists: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford
Two books in the news were written by or about two of Waugh’s friends and fellow writers: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford. As explained in reviews of those books, both progressed from upper-class to left-wing political views: –Novelist and critic … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Guardian, Inez Holden, Laura Thompson, Literary Review, Nancy Mitford, New York Times
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Early November Roundup
–The Daily Mail reprints extracts from the gossipy personal diaries of journalist and biographer Kenneth Rose. These are from the second volume entitled Who Wins, Who Loses? covering the period 1979-2014: March 29, 1982. Geoffrey Warnock [Oxford vice-chancellor] tells me … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Mail, Kenneth Rose, Raritan, The Times, Washington Post
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Samuel Hynes (1924-2019) R.I.P.
Another veteran American literary scholar and critic died earlier this month at Princeton . This was Samuel Hynes, WWII veteran fighter pilot and retired Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He was 95. His best known critical work … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged New York Times, Samuel Hynes
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