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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Pinfold’s Voices
Yuexi Liu has written an essay on Waugh’s 1957 novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. This is included in the latest issue of Modernist Cultures (No. 15/2, 2020) published by the Edinburgh University Press. Here is the abstract: Waugh’s last … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Modernist Cultures, Thornfield Hall, Yuexi Liu
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“Helena” Memoir in The Tablet
The current issue of The Tablet has what is essentially a memoir by Sara Haslam of her experiences in editing Waugh’s novel Helena. The book was published earlier this month in the UK and will be published in early January … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Harry Ransom Center, Oxford University Press, Sara Haslam, The Tablet
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Link to Virtual Book Launch of Helena
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project has posted a recording of the virtual book launch last week for their edition of Helena. For those who missed the live version, here’s the link: https://lboro.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=44cc1f86-8d30-41a3-a6a3-ac71008f938b For a summary, see earlier post. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Helena
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Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day Roundup
–In another article about the proposed new Brideshead TV series, Alexander Larman wonders whether there might not be more deserving works of Waugh for adaptation. This is published in the latest issue of The Critic. After noting that it will … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Billy Wilder, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Jonathan Coe, New Criterion, Night and Day, Sydney Morning Herald, The Critic
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Memoir of “The Loot”
David Platzer has written a memoir of his acquaintanceship with Stuart Preston who was well known during his military service days among Waugh and his friends in WWII London. The memoir, entitled “A Sergeant Abroad”, appears in the latest issue … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Andy Warhol, David Platzer, New Criterion, Stuart Preston
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A Biography and A Portrait
–Waugh scholar and EW Society member Ann Pasternak Slater has written a new book relating to a writer Waugh admired but knew only slightly. This is a biography of T S Eliot’s wife Vivien. The book is reviewed by Brian … Continue reading
Rosalind Morrison (More)
The Australian literary magazine Quadrant has posted a story by Mark McGinness which provides more details about the life of Rosalind Morrison who died recently at the age of 74. See previous post. He explains among other things her connection … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Madresfield Court, Mark McGinness, Quadrant, Rosalind Morrison
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Deal on New Brideshead Series Reported Imminent
It has been reported in the Daily Mail, Radio Times and Deadline that a deal on a new Brideshead Revisited TV series by the BBC and HBO is imminent. Here’s the story as reported in Tatler: 2020 marks the 75th … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Baz Bambigboye, BBC, Daily Mail, Tatler
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Election Week Roundup: A Journalistic Memoir and A Belated Review
–Foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has died at the age of 74. The New York Times describes his career in their obituary: “Robert Fisk, a dauntless journalist who was widely praised by colleagues and competitors alike for relentlessly chronicling the Middle … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Al Jazeera, Ann Pasternak Slater, Essays in Criticism, New York Times, Philip Eade, Robert Fisk
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