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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Adventide Roundup
–There are two comments on similarities between the governmental missteps that lead to the release of a murderous jihadist terrorist and Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Conservative columnist Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph: The deaths inside and outside … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, First Thinga, Society of Biblical Literature, Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald
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La Prensa Article Marks Brideshead Anniversary
The Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa has published an article marking the 75th anniversary of the completion of Brideshead Revisited in 1944. This is entitled “Bajo el hechizo del recuerdo” (“Under the spell of remembrance”) and is written by Guillermo … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Guillermo Belcore, La Prensa (Buenoa Aires), Tusquets
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Clive James (1939-2019) R. I. P.
The critic and poet Clive James has died at the age of 80, after a long fight with cancer. He was born in Australia and moved to England in the early 1960s where he finished his education at Cambridge University. … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Clive James, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun (Melbourne)
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Brideshead 75th Anniversary Festival Announced
Castle Howard has announced the dates of its festival next summer to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited. This will be held at the Castle Howard estate in North Yorkshire from 26-28 June. Here is the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals
Tagged Castle Howard
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Pre-Thanksgiving Roundup
–Writing in the Guardian, columnist Marina Hyde looks at the recent debacle arising from Prince Andrew’s BBC Newsnight interview. Her story is entitled “How badly must you do your job for your own mother to fire you?” After several comparisons, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, Este Pais, Guardian, The American Interest, The Spectator
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Pinfold, Waugh, and Vivien Leigh
Waugh Society member and frequent contributor Melina Borden has posted on the British Library’s Weblog a brief article based on the BL’s archives of Waugh’s correspondence. The item of primary interest is a telegram Vivien Leigh sent Waugh in advance … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh Society, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged British Library, Vivien Leigh
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75th Anniversary of Brideshead Airdrop
75 years ago today, the page proofs of Brideshead Revisited were dropped by parachute into Yugoslavia and retrieved by Evelyn Waugh. This event is recorded in his diary entry for Monday, 20 November 1944 (Diaries, p. 592). This is the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, World War II
Tagged Yugoslavia
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Brideshead Serial Lecture Available Online
The audio version of the lecture delivered last Friday to the British Studies seminar at the University of Texas is now available online. See previous post. It can be accessed at this link.
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures
Tagged British Studies Seminar, University of Texas
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Mid-November Roundup
–The Oxford journal Cherwell reviews a current production of Hamlet at the Keble College O’Reilly Theatre. The review opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Would you not see a hundred Hamlets pottering about Broad Street?” Evelyn Waugh’s question is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Complete Works, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ambrose McEvoy, Cherwell, Daily Mail, OUPblog, The Oldie, Words on Fire
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Niall Tóibín (1929-2019) R. I. P.
Irish actor Niall Tóibín died earlier this week at the age of 89. He is best known in this parish for his portrayal of Fr Mackay in the Granada TV series of Brideshead Revisited. Acording to the obituary in the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Television
Tagged IMDB, Irish Times, Niall Tóibín, Stephen Moore
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