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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
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 Exhibition Catalogue Available Online
The catalogue of E.W. Pinxit: An Exhibition of the Graphic Art of Evelyn Waugh is available online and may be downloaded in pdf format from this link. It is written by Mark Everett with the assistence of Ed Maggs and Alice … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Items for Sale, London
Tagged art exhibit, catalogue, Maggs Bros booksellers, Mark Everett
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Waugh’s Article on Catholics in America Quoted
Author and critic Terry Teachout who writes for the Wall Steert Journal and Commentary has posted on his arts news weblog, without comment, a quote from Evelyn Waugh’s 1949 Life Magazine article entitled “The American Epoch in the Catholic Church”: … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Life Magazine, Terry Teachout
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The Eater at Quaglino’s with Waugh
The London edition of Eater.com, an online food journal, has done a profile on the long-lived Mayfair establishment of Quaglino’s. Waugh’s association with Quaglino’s was mentioned in a previous post that was based on the restaurant’s own advertising copy. In her article … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, London, Newspapers
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Duncan McLaren, Eater.com, Phillipa Snow, Quaglino's, restaurants
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Maggs Bros Exhibit Opens Today
There are additional notices regarding the Maggs Bros. booksellers exhibit of Waugh’s graphic artwork. See previous posts. These appear on the Spectator Life and artdaily.org websites. The Spectator Life article also has several reproductions. The exhibit opens today, 18 July and runs through Friday, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Evelyn Waugh, Events, London, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged artdaily, Maggs Bros. Ltd., Spectator Life
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Arcadia and Country Houses (More)
The BBC Radio 3 broadcast of the Words and Music episode on the subject of “Arcadia” is now available on the internet at this link. It is more music than words, and if you want to know source of either, you … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 3, Laura Freeman, Phyllis Richardson, Times newspaper, Words and Music
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Waugh and the Hendon Nudists
An article appears in the Londonist (an online magazine devoted to local news about London, past and present) relating to a 1930 incident when a group of nudists chose to sunbathe unclothed at a Hendon lake called the Welsh Harp. This was … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, London, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Londonist, nudism, sunbathing
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Telegraph Reviews Opening of Waugh Art Exhibit
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibit next week at Maggs Bros booksellers relating to Waugh’s work as a graphic artist, Michael Bird reviews his career in that field in today’s Sunday Telegraph. After describing Waugh’s movement from modernist iconoclast to opponent of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged EW Pinxit, Maggs Bros booksellers, Michael Bird, Sunday Telegraph
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“Scoop-like” Novel Boosted
In Peter Wilby’s New Stateman column, the new novel Splash! by Stephen Glover often likened to Waugh’s Scoop has been given another boost. As explained by Wilby, Scoop: … drew on Waugh’s experience of covering Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia (as it … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Mail, New Statesman, Peter Wilby, Stephen Glover
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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
