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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Weekend Roundup: St Helena and Pick-me-ups
This week’s roundup starts with religious and moves on to secular issues: –August 18th is the feast day of St Helena in the western church calendar. Blogger Amy Welborn has posted an article on Waugh’s novel about the Saint for … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Evening Standard, National Review, The National, The Oldie, The Times
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Visits with V S Naipaul
Two recent stories following the death of V S Naipaul have Waugh connections. Most prominent are the reflections by Alexander Waugh of his several meetings with Naipaul dating back to his childhood when Sir Vidia came to visit his father. … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Paul Theroux, TLS, V S Naipaul, Vanity Fair
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Two Bloggers and a Librarian Reading Waughs
Two bloggers have been posting comments on their readings of Waugh novels. One, on Brideshead Revisited, the other, on the novels of Auberon Waugh. A German librarian has also contributed a report on her reading of Put Out More Flags: … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Elliot's Reading.com, Nigeness.com, Ostthueringer Zeitung
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Another Gerhardie Revival
According to an article by novelist Jonathan Coe in The Sunday Times, another attempt to revive the works of William Gerhardie is underway. There seems to be an ongoing competition between Gerhardie and Henry Green for who can be the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Hazel Lavery, Jonathan Coe, The Sunday Times, TLS, William Gerhardie
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Roundup: Orphans and Entrecote
This week’s roundup relates mostly to books and book reviews: –In reviewing the book Orphans: A History by Jeremy Seabrook in The Spectator, novelist Philip Hensher considers several eaxmples of how orphans have been treated in literature by various authors, … Continue reading
V S Naipaul (1932-2018) R.I.P.
V S Naipaul, writer of fiction and non-fiction, mostly about third world countries or their natives displaced to other lands, has died in England at the age of 85. His last notable action was to win the Nobel Prize in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days
Tagged Hawthornden Prize, New York Times, Nobel Prize, Stabroek News, V S Naipaul, Wall Street Journal
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Another Waugh Literary Debut
The Daily Mail in Richard Eden’s gossip column, reports the literary debut of another descendent of Evelyn Waugh: …Panda La Terriere, his great-granddaughter, has become the talk of the Edinburgh Fringe festival with a play she’s written about someone addicted … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Daily Mail, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Isle of Muck, Naomi Adedokun, Panda La Terriere
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Scoop Hotel in Addis Reopens
The South China Morning Post has a feature length article about the reopening of the Taitu Hotel in Addis Ababa. This is written by Ian Gill who made a recent visit. His story opens with this: The ghost of William … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Ian Gill, South China Morning Post, Taitu Hotel
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Memory of Wartime Piers Court
A letter reposted from the magazine This England recalls WWII schooldays at Piers Court. The magazine appears quarterly, and this letter is in its Autumn 2018 issue. This is from an evacuee who now lives in America. The letter is … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Hampstead, Heath Mount, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Muddy Stilettos, Otago Daily News, Piers Court, This England
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Roundup: From Australia to Europe via Mexico
–A recent issue of The Australian has an essay by Paul Monk entitled “Western Civilisation: A primer for willing readers.” This includes a broad consideration of liberal arts educational experiences over the years. Among those discussed are the Oxford years … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Remote People, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Alex Murray, Edward Gibbon, FiveBooks, Junge Welt, Project MUSE, The Australian, TLS
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