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Category Archives: Edmund Campion
Christie’s Online Sale of Waugh Presentation Copies
Christie’s has issued a catalogue for the sale of several Waugh editions from the collection of William S Reese. Here’s the general description: The themes of Part Three of The Private Collection of William S. Reese include fine art, Yale … Continue reading
Early April Roundup
–In the Daily Telegraph, Rupert Christiansen has reviewed Daisy Dunn’s previously mentioned new book Not Far from Brideshead. The review is entitled “The Greats [sic] and the good at Oxford.” Here’s an excerpt: …Dunn writes with intelligence and verve, but … Continue reading
Septimus Waugh: Reminiscence
The Tablet’s latest issue has a reminiscence of the late Septimus Waugh. This appears in the “Word from the Cloister” column and is based on an interview of Jimmy Burns, journalist and member of The Tablet’s board. He was a … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Diaries, Edmund Campion, Interviews, Newspapers, Waugh Family, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Jimmy Burns, Septimus Waugh, The Tablet, Tom Burns
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Roundup: From Party Going to Boredom
–A recent issue of Financial Times contains a “Weekend Essay” on the return of the party, to London and New York at least. This is by Alex Bilmes who is editor of Esquire. After reminiscing about how party going shut … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Madeleine Kearns, Mail on Sunday, National Catholic Register, The Spectator
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Campion Hall Lecture on YouTube
Prof. Gerard Kilroy’s 9 September 2021 lecture on “Edmund Campion and Waugh’s Household of the Faith”at Campion Hall, Oxford is available on YouTube at this link. The illustrated lecture was presented at Campion Hall, Oxford before a live audience and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion
Tagged YouTube
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Oxford Campion Event (More)
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh has issued an invitation to recently announced book launch at Campion Hall in Oxford. See earlier post dated 26 July. This clarifies that the book to be launched is the OUP Complete Works edition … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Events, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall, Gerard Kilroy
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Upcoming Waugh Events
–This Thursday, 29 July will effectively be “Waugh Night” on BBC Four. This will start with the 2008 Ecosse/Miramax film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. BBC was one of several co-producers of the film and has redeployed it several times. Oddly, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Events, Interviews, Oxford
Tagged Amazon Prime, BBC, Campion Hall. Gerard Kilroy
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Campion in La Prensa
The Buenos Aires paper La Prensa has published a review of Waugh’s biography Edmund Campion. The review, which is unsigned, opens with this: Evelyn Waugh wrote this book between 1934 and 1935, in homage to the Jesuit College of Oxford … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged La Prensa (Buenos Aires)
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Brideshead @ 75: The Economist and The Tablet
–The current issue of The Economist includes in its Arts section an article entitled “The Flyte club.” This is the magazine’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead in 1945. After a brief survey of the somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Gerard Kilroy, The Economist, The Tablet
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Easter Roundup: Reading Waugh in a Time of Self-Isolation
–An article in National Review relates mainly to Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel in Italian The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). This is by M D Aeschliman who explains the popularity of the 700 page work among his University of Virginia students … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Sword of Honour
Tagged Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Independent, The Spectator, ThePublicDiscourse.com
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