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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Recommended as Cure for Alcoholics
Daily Mail books columnist Daisy Goodwin has written an article recommending books to help cure or prevent alcoholism. Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is recommended for its warning about the evil effects of the disease on those other than the drinker: …for a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged alcoholism, Daily Mail, Daisy Goodwin
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Rex Mottram = Donald Trump?
Rex Mottram in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited has enjoyed something of a renaissance lately, as witnessed in several of our recent postings. George Weigel, writing in the National Review, may have hit upon the reason for this. He reminds people of Donald Trump. According … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Donald Trump, George Weigel, National Review, Rex Mottram
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Waugh at Chatsworth
The Yorkshire Post has a story about an exhibit at Chatsworth House of Cecil Beaton’s photographs. The photos themselves are mostly from Southebys but the subjects of these photos are visitors to Chatsworth. One of the photos is of Evelyn Waugh. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Photographs, Ronald Knox
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Chatsworth House, Daily Telegraph, Deborah Devonshire, New York Times
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Presentation Copy of Vile Bodies on Sale
Peter Harrington Books has listed a copy of the Vile Bodies first edition. This is a copy which Waugh presented to London chef Marcel Boulestin: First edition, presentation copy, eponymously inscribed on the front endpaper: “For Marcel Boulestin/ from / Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in First Editions, Items for Sale, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Marcel Boulestin, Peter Harrington Books, Randolph Churchill
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Brideshead on Aussie Reading List
An Australian newsblog The New Daily has included Brideshead Revisited on a list of “20 books you should have read by now:” Wartime British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote arguably his most-celebrated novel about Charles Ryder, an undergraduate at Oxford who befriends the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged The New Daily
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Evelyn Waugh and Confirmation Bias
The journalism website of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Storyboard, carries an article by Michael Fitzgerald that cites a brief episode of Scoop as an example of a phenomenon that should be avoided by future journalists. This is known as “confirmation bias:” There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged confirmation bias, journalism, Michael Fitzgerald, Nieman Foundation
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Country Life in the Plashy Fen
An article in this week’s Spectator recounts the successful career of Country Life magazine. This is on the occasion of the BBC2’s production of a 3-part documentary on how the magazine is put together. The article is written by Nigel … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged BBC2, Country Life, Mells Manor, Spectator
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Details Emerge of Brideshead Stage Production
The Daily Mail in a story based on an interview with Damian Cruden has announced details of the upcoming stage production of Brideshead Revisited opening at York’s Theatre Royal next month. Cruden, the play’s director, said that all the characters are wrapped … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Daily Mail, Damian Cruden, Theatre Royal York
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Waugh Cited in Architectural Satire Article
Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall (1928) has been cited in an article on architectural satire. This appears in the online edition of the magazine Building Design. The classic British book in this style, according to the article, is H.B. Cresswell’s … Continue reading
Conservative Think Tank Recommends Waugh Trilogy
The Hoover Institution of Stanford University has added Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy to its Classics of Military History. This is a recommended reading list posted on the Hoover’s internet site. The explanation for inclusion of Waugh’s war novels is … Continue reading
