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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Names (Yet More)
In today’s Daily Express there is another story inspired by Time magazine’s recent misclassification of Evelyn Waugh. The story begins with a short review of Wavian names: The late author of Brideshead Revisited might have been tickled by the error. … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Martin Stannard, names, Will This Do?
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Hooper, Rex Mottram and Modern Education
Author and journalist Joseph Pearce has published an essay about the shortcomings of modern education on The Imaginative Conservative weblog. This is a follow up to an earlier posting on G.K. Chesterton’s views relating to the same subject in which the importance of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged education, Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative
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Brideshead First Exceeds Estimate
The first edition of Brideshead Revisited inscribed by Waugh to Deborah Devonshire (nee Mitford) and her husband Andrew sold today at auction for £52,500 ($78,400). According to one report, this was more than double the estimate. The identity of the … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions
Tagged Deborah Devonshire Estate
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Renishaw Reviewed
The current issue of the New Criterion carries a review of Renishaw Hall: The Story of the Sitwells by Desmond Seward. The review by Brooke Allen notes the importance of the Sitwells and their house to Evelyn Waugh: According to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Brooke Allen, Desmond Seward, Renishaw Hall, The Sitwells
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Brideshead Cover Art on Display
A Roman Catholic quarterly literary magazine (Dappled Things) has kindly posted the cover art from copies of Brideshead Revisited dating back to the first editions. It does not claim to be complete and does not include any foreign language editions. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Collections, First Editions
Tagged cover art, Dappled Things
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Waugh Foresaw Time Error
An article in the City Journal, a leading urban policy magazine, describes the recent inability of Time magazine’s editors to spot the recent misallocation of Evelyn Waugh’s writings to a survey of women authors, as an example of the failure of America’s … Continue reading
Posted in Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged City Journal, Mathew Yglesias, Time magazine. Stefan Kanfer
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Details Announced of Waugh Anniversary Event in Leeds
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project has announced the details of an event at the University of Leeds on 23 March to mark the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death later this year. Here’s the schedule and venue: Event ScheduleHost: Professor … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Complete Works, Conferences, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brotherton Gallery, Michael Brennan, University of Leeds
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Waugh’s Chapels
A traditionalist Roman Catholic blogger has posted a short entry on the connections between the fictional chapel described at Brideshead Castle in Waugh’s novel and the actual chapel at Madresfield Court. The connection between these chapels is well known and … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged Dorothy Lygon, Madresfield Court
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Joyce Maynard Lists Waugh Book Among Favorites
In The Week magazine, journalist and novelist Joyce Maynard lists Brideshead Revisited among her six favorite books. Maynard is probably best known for her 1992 novel To Die For, which was made into a film, and her 1998 memoir At Home in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Joyce Maynard, The Week
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Wodehouse Redivivus
A book blog has posted an article describing Evelyn Waugh’s role in the re-establishment of the reputation of P.G. Wodehouse. Waugh’s actions are compared with previous efforts of George Bernard Shaw on behalf of Henrik Ibsen and Walker Percy who … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Radio Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, P.G.Wodehouse
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