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Category Archives: Letters
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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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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Churchill, the “Sham Augustan”
Winston Churchill’s reputation seems to be enjoying yet another renaissance. This may be due to political leadership fatigue in the English-speaking world. A recent book and two films are the latest examples of Churchilliana. An issue of The Tablet from earlier … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh and Clare Balding’s Great Grandfather
In the latest episode of the BBC’s series Who Do You Thing You Are?, the subject is their sports presenter Clare Balding. As a member of the LGBT community, she is interested in finding out if any of her ancestors … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Clare Balding, Sir Malcolm Bullock, Who Do You Think You Are?
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Waugh and Country Houses
There have been several recent articles that mention Evelyn Waugh in connection with English country houses: Carlton Towers. As noted in a recent post, this house was the setting of Hetton Abbey in the 1980s film version of A Handful of … Continue reading
Brexit and Lord Glasgow’s Castle
The Economist in this week’s “Bagehot” column opens with a reference to a wartime letter Evelyn Waugh wrote to his wife, using it as a metaphor for Britain’s current political malaise: WRITING to his wife in May 1942, Evelyn Waugh recounted … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Brexit, Lord Glasgow, The Economist
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Waugh and the Honours List
Twice a year (on the Queen’s Birthday and New Years) the London papers can be expected to drag out their list of those who in the past have rejected honours offered them just as the papers announce the latest list of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, CBE, Graham Greene, honours, Huffington Post, Maurice Bowra, Nancy Mitford, The Mirror
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Cyril Connolly Reconsidered
In an essay in the current TLS, Brian Dillon reconsiders the career of Waugh’s contemporary and friend Cyril Connolly. The essay is entitled “Cyril Connolly and the literature of depression” and was originally published in Dillon’s collection Essayism. Dillon recognizes this topic is … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Brian Dillon, Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, TLS
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