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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Crouchbackian Undercurrents Seen in Australian Novel
A recent Australian novel tells the story of a soldier who suffered through the British evacuation of Crete. This is Archipelago of Souls by Gregory Day. It is reviewed by a writer identified only by his/her initials (“AF”) in The Saturday … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Archipelago of Souls, Gregory Day, The Battle of Crete, The Saturday Paper
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Waugh and the Mitfords
A brief article by your correspondent about Waugh and the Mitford sisters has been posted on The Mitford Society’s internet site. It relates to the sisters Nancy, Diana and Deborah. The article originally appeared in The Mitford Society Annual, volume … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Lyndsy Spence, The Mitford Society
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Sharper Sword
The South China Morning Post has published a review of Waugh’s Sword of Honour as part of a three-part retrospective review connected by each subject’s containing a knife in its title. The other two reviews relate to a 2006 recording by a Swedish rock … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged In the Picture, Michael Scott, Roman Polanski, South China Morning Post, The Knife
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Waugh Binge Recalled in Spectator Competition
Jeremy Clarke, author of the Spectator’s “Low Life” column, is running a competition for the best description of “the drunkest I’ve ever been.” The winner will be announced at the launch party for the collection of Clarke’s columns to be held later this … Continue reading
Posted in Labels
Tagged Athens, Jeremy Clarke, Low Life, The Spectator
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Waugh in Sitcom Punchline
In the latest episode of the ITV sitcom Vicious, starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a elderly gay couple, Evelyn Waugh makes an appearance. In this episode (No. 4 of the current series) the couple are contemplating marriage after being together for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Derek Jacobi, Ian Mckellen, ITV, Vicious
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Candace Bushnell, Waugh Fan
U.S. novelist Candace Bushnell is the featured writer in this week’s By the Book column in the New York Times Book Review. She is best known for Sex and the City which was a collection of her columns from The New York Observer … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged Candace Bushnell, New York Times Book Review
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Waugh Among the Bohemians
The BBC is currently running a cultural documentary entitled How to be a Bohemian. It is presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell and is broadcast on Monday nights over the BBC4 channel. The first episode traced the history of artistic “bohemians” from … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Film, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, How to be a Bohemian, Stephan Tennant, Stephen Fry, Victoria Coren Mitchell
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Robert Byron, Dangerous Lunatic
The latest edition of the Australian Financial Review contains a story by Nick Hordern about Robert Byron, an outstanding British travel writer of the 1930s. The focus of the article is Byron’s book The Road to Oxiana which several critics have acclaimed … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Australian Financial Review, Harold Acton, Nick Hordern, Robert Byron
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Funeral Directors Revisited
This week’s Spectator carries an article by Cressida Connolly (daughter of Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly) urging that the negativity usually directed towards funeral directors be reassessed. They have a hard job to to that should be more appreciated. She traces … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Cressida Connolly, Funeral Directors, Jessica Mitford, Spectator, The American Way of Death
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