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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Former Easton Court Hotel Now Holiday Cottage Rental
One portion of the Easton Court Hotel, where Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited in February-June 1944, is now on offer as a self-catering holiday cottage. This is described on the website Trip Advisor: A thatched 16th century Devon Longhouse, full of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale
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Heywood Hill Bookstore Still Thriving
The Mayfair bookstore where Waugh was a customer and his friend Nancy Mitford was a manager is profiled in this week’s New York Times “T” magazine (“Shelf Life” p. 196). This is the Heywood Hill book store, in an article by Sarah … Continue reading
Posted in First Editions, London, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Heywood Hill Bookstore, Nancy Mitford, New York Times
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Boot Magna School of Economics
A reporter for the Idaho Statesman is reminded of a character from Scoop in a recent story: Robert Gordon’s new book on productivity in the U.S. economy, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” is masterful, but reminds me of … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Idaho Statesman, U S economy
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Comedian Ben Miller Names Waugh Among Favorites
The online edition of the Daily Mail carries an interview by Gwendolyn Smith of British comedian Ben Miller for the paper’s Event Magazine. Miller recently appeared in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise and has previously been seen in the … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Ben Miller, Daily Mail
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Interview in The Lady Cites War Trilogy
Veteran British actor, Nicholas Farrell, is interviewed in a recent issue of The Lady magazine. He has appeared in numerous stage, screen and TV productions, including notably Chariots of Fire, The Iron Lady, and Foyle’s War, and is currently working … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Sword of Honour
Tagged Nicholas Farrell, The Lady
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Literary Guides Link Waugh and Madresfield
Two guide books to houses with literary associations have linked Evelyn Waugh to Madresfield Court in Worcestershire. That was the home of the Lygon family and inspired certain features of Brideshead Castle and the Flyte family in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. The … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Literary Guide Books, Madresfield Court, Nick Channer, Phyllis Richardson
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Debut Comic Novel Likened to Waugh
The American Conservative magazine carries a review by Chris R. Morgan in its digital edition of a first novel that he compares favorably with Evelyn Waugh’s own debut: In the annals of comic writing, fewer debuts are seemingly as auspicious as … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall
Tagged Amends, American Conservative, Chris R. Morgan, Eve Tushnet
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Waugh Novels Recommended on Valentine’s Day
The editors of The American Scholar put together a list of books for Valentine’s Day reading. The idea was to “celebrate the whole history of love—even the ugly bits—with these 14 novels of romance gone awry.” Among those selected was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One
Tagged The American Scholar, Valentine's Day
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War, Peace and Brideshead
In yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Harry Mount declares the recent BBC adaptation of War and Peace by Andrew Davies to be a failure. This is inevitable, he writes, when an attempt is made to compress a massive 19th Century novel, written originally in a foreign language, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Davies, BBC, Daily Telegraph, Harry mount, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Tony Last and Julian Assange
A UK political blogger has posted a message comparing the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the hero of Waugh’s novel Handful of Dust. This was T0ny Last, who: … ends the book trapped as a prisoner in the Brazilian jungle – … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Julian Assange
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