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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: An End and a Beginning
Writing in the Weekly Standard, Elizabeth Kantor examines the fascination of viewers with the Netflix series The Crown and compares it to the earlier ITV series Downton Abbey. The article is entitled, with not too subtle irony, “Crown of Duty.” In the course … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Gimson, Conservativehome.com, Elizabeth Kantor, Netflix, The Crown, Tim Shipman, Weekly Standard
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The Baronets Heygate
A Northern Ireland blogger posting as Lord Belmont has put up a history of the Heygate family of which John Heygate was a member. Heygate is perhaps best remembered as having alienated the affections of Evelyn Waugh’s first wife. He … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Tagged Evelyn Gardner, John Heygate, Lord Belmont of Northern Ireland
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Revisiting Brideshead TV Series in Holland
A Dutch language internet entertainment website has posted a review of the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This is on the occasion of its recent rebroadcast in the Netherlands on the ONS Channel. The reviewer Robert Gooijer opens … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs
Tagged delagarde.nl, Granada, Jeremy Irons, ONS TV Channel (Netherlands), Robert Gooijer
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Evelyn Waugh and Our Lady of Guadalupe
An article posted in the Burkean Journal (produced by students of Trinity College Dublin) describes the importance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Mexicans and to the history of Mexico. The article uses as its context the painting by Marxist artist … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Burkean Journal, Mexican history, Our Lady of Guadalupe
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D J Taylor Reviews the Complete Works
In the current issue of Literary Review, literary critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews the first four volumes of Evelyn Waugh’s Complete Works. The review, entitled “Author of Himself”, manages to be at the same time thorough, scholarly and … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Interviews, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged D.J.Taylor, George Orwell, Literary Review
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Randolph Remembered
The Daily Beast has published a memoir of Randolph Churchill by Clive Irving. This is in response to Randolph’s relative neglect in the wake of all the attention accorded to his father following two recent successful film treatments and several … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Events, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Capital Research Center, Daily Beast, Guardian, Randolph Chirchill, The Times, V&A Museum, Winnie the Pooh
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Waugh and the Nazis?
An article in the independent news and opinion website PULSE has an article by Anas el Hawat entitled “On the Astonishment That Nazis Can ‘Still’ Have Taste” that opens with this: Evelyn Waugh [sic], on a visit to Germany in … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged German politics, Nazi party, PULSE, Sir Evelyn Wrench
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Literary Drinking Bouts
In today’s Guardian there is an article in the “Rereading” column by Mark Forsyth discussing the 10 most entertaining discriptions of drinking bouts in literature. One of those included is from Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall: Decline and Fall starts … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged binge drinking, Guardian, Mark Forsyth
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Wavian Echoes from Abyssinian War
Milena Borden has sent the following article based on a recent event reported in Italy (see link) that recalls Waugh’s coverage of the Abyssinian War: Earlier this year, in Italy, the mayor and two town councillors of the town of … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Abyssinia, Rodolfo Graziani
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A Handful of Hard Cheese
Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph finds echoes of Waugh in a recent story. This involves the rescue of TV presenter and explorer Benedict Allen from the jumgles of Papua New Guinea into which he had disappeared. Deacon is: … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Alexandra Jacobs, Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon, New York Times
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