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Category Archives: A Little Learning
Waugh Featured in Conservative Journal
The American Conservative, a print magazine and online journal, has issued an article entitled: “Evelyn Waugh Predicted the Collapse of Catholic England:Ā He saw Vatican II as an attempt by elites to foist changes on a laity that didn’t want them.” … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Second Vatican Council, The American Conservative
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Roundup: Party Fiction and Personal Libraries
–The National Review has published a symposium on the subject of personal libraries in which participants explain the pleasure and burden they impose. Here’s the contribution of American literary critic Terry Teachout: My Manhattan apartment contains a thousand-odd books, but … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Adaptations, Events, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Literary Hub, National Review, Paris Review, Terry Southern, Terry Teachout
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Groundhog Day Roundup
–Columnist John Derbyshire has posted a story in his “Derb’s January Diary” column on the anti-immigrant website Vdare that may start another debate like U/Non-U pronunciation or George and Ira Gershwin’s line “You say tomato, and I say tomahto”. Derbyshire, … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Cecil Beaton, John Derbyshire, Jonathan Meades, language, Standpoint, The Times, Tracey Thorn, Vdare.com
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Roundup: The Walrus and the Waugh Scholars
–Duncan McLaren has added a new article to his Evelyn Waugh website relating to three of the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Precocious Waughs (v.30), Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934Ā (v.26), and A Little Learning (v.19). He … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, Work Suspended
Tagged Catholic Herald, Duncan McLaren, Literary Hub, Marcel Proust, The Tatler
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Bullying in the House?
In the 1960 BBC interview of Evelyn Waugh in the Face to Face series, presenter John Freeman posed a series of questions about Waugh’s career at Oxford. Among them are these relating to his children: Q. Are any of your … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Christ Church, Guardian
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Midwinter Thoughts in Australia
This week was winter solstice in Australia and, in connection with that time of darkness and depression, the Sydney Morning Herald ran an article about suicide. The article, by David Astle, opened with this: Evelyn Waugh walked down to the … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Public Schools, suicide, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Times
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Spring Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Available
The Spring 2018 issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies is now available. This is issue 49.1. The contents and abstracts of articles are set forth below. A complete copy of this issue is available here: ARTICLES Milena Borden, … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Love Among The Ruins, Vile Bodies
Tagged Milena Borden, Toshiaki Onishi
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A Visit to Burgh House Exhibit: Evelyn Waugh and Basil Bourchier
Milena Borden has kindly sent this report of her visit to a Waugh-related exhibit in North London which was mentioned in a previous post: Closing this Sunday, the exhibition A Totally Preposterous Parson: Evelyn Waugh and Basil BourchierĀ is displayed in … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Hampstead, Waugh Family
Tagged Burgh House, Rev Alan Walker, Rev Basil Bourchier
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Roundup: Six Novelists, Two of them Waughs
Maclean’s magazine has published an interview of Tom Rachman on the occsaion of the publication of a new novel, his third. This is entitled The Italian Teacher: “about an artist trying to find himself in the shadow of his painter … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Alfred Duggan, Allan Massie, Catholic Herald, D.J.Taylor, Maclean's, Powells Books, TLS, Tom Rachman, VisitBritain.com
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