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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Living
Novelist Adam Thirlwell has written an article in The Nation on Henry Green’s early novel Living (1929), citing, inter alia, the importance of Evelyn Waugh to the novel’s success: [Green] had written one of the most radical novels of his era. It … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Adam Thirlwell, Bookforum, Henry Green, Sarah Nicole Prickett, The Nation
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Dudley Carew (More)
The current issue of The Cricket Monthly includes a major article about Waugh’s school friend Dudley Carew. See earlier post. This article, by Gideon Haigh, has particular reference to Carew’s career as a reporter on cricket for The Times and his 1936 cricket-themed … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Articles, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Arthur Waugh, Dudley Carew, Gideon Haigh, The Cricket Monthly
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Scoop and “Fake News”
There have been several references to Waugh’s Scoop in the wake of the new concern with “fake news” arising from present US political turmoil. As anyone familiar with Waugh’s novel will know, this is not a new phenomenon. Perhaps the most poignant … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Bill Turnbull, Daily Mail, Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, Ronald E Yates
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“Prose Factory” in Paperback
The Times has selected D J Taylor’s The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 as one of its paperback picks of the week: Evelyn Waugh noted in his diary: “After dinner I went to the Savoy Theatre and said, ‘I … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Times newspaper
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Rolle’s Ramblings (More)
Elisa Rolle, chronicler of the LGBT community in a series of books describing their lives and locations, has posted from her books another entry mentioning Evelyn Waugh. See earlier post. This is from Queer Places, v 2 (2016) and describes the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, London
Tagged A.L. Rowse, Canonbury Square, Elisa Rolle, Hugh Lygon, LGBT Community
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Jesuit Journal Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of America magazine, the journal of the Jesuit order in the US, reviews Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. The review is by David Leigh and is not a favorable one: Any biographer of Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, David Leigh, Philip Eade
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Brideshead and Silence
Japanese author Shusaku Endo, a Roman Catholic, wrote a novel entitled Silence (1966) that has recently been adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese. The book seems generally to be considered Endo’s masterpiece. The story is about Jesuit missionaries sent out in the 16th century … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Martin Scorsese, Shusaku Endo, Silence, The Christian Review, The Power and the Glory, The Tablet
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Emma Tennant (1937-2017): Latter-day BYP
Novelist Emma Tennant has died at the age of 79. She was a prolific writer, leaving an oeuvre of over 45 books. She was also founder and editor of a 1970s literary magazine known as Bananas. Although she wrote in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Emma Tennant, Stephen Tennant, The Times newspaper
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Waugh-Designed Bookplate on Ebay
A book for sale on ebay contains a bookplate designed by Evelyn Waugh. The book belonged to Dudley Carew (1903-1981), Waugh’s school friend from Lancing who later wrote a memoir entitled A Fragment of Friendship: Evelyn Waugh as a young man (1974). … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Diaries, Items for Sale, Lancing
Tagged Bookplate, Dudley Carew
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Ducker of the Turl (More)
Another story has appeared in connection with the closure of the shoemakers Ducker and Sons in The Turl, Oxford. See earlier post. This will occur later this month according to the story in The Oxford Times. The store’s ledgers are to … Continue reading
Posted in Chattels & Movables, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ducker & Sons, shoemakers, The Oxford Times, Thrusal of Cambridge
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