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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Piers Court for Sale
Waugh’s country house in Gloucestershire has been listed for sale according to Country Life magazine. The listing agent is Knight, Frank and the asking price is £3 million. The article by Penny Churchill explains that the current owners, who have lived … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Robbery Under Law, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Anna Temkin, Country Life, Daily Post (Wales), Knight Frank, Penny Churchill, Piers Court, Plas Dulas, R M Dawkins, The Times
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U and Non-U (more)
The U and Non-U debate continues in the pages of the TLS. The latest batch of comments centers on the proper salutation before having a drink. A letter takes issue with the Non-U status imposed on “Cheers” by Nancy Mitford, … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged TLS, U and Non-U
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Put Out More Flags Reconsidered
John Rossi, Professor of History at La Salle University cites Put Out More Flags as underrated, while nevertheless being considered by some as the best novel of WWII. This is in the latest issue of the American Conservative Magazine. Rossi … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged John Rossi, The American Conservative, Weekly Standard
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Lord Marchmain and a Secular Death
A scene from Brideshead features prominently in a post on the Oxford University Press weblog. This is by Wayne Glausser, Professor of English at De Pauw University. He was reminded of what he calls secular death by the recent passing … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Oxford University Press, Wayne Glausser
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A Naïve Domestic Little Unicorn
Writing in Forbes magazine, John Mariani surveys wine writing and finds that this is one area where inexperienced “experts” tend to bring too much imagination to bear on their work. He uses a scene from Brideshead Revisited to illustrate his … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Forbes magazine, James Mariani, James Thurber, New Yorker magazine, Wine
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Homeless in Mayfair
The religious website Aleteia reports the decision to erect a statue of a “Homeless Jesus” at a Roman Catholic church in Mayfair, London: The sculpture titled “Homeless Jesus” can be seen in several locations around the world, but none as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, London, Waugh Family
Tagged Aleteia.com, Farm Street Church, Homeless Jesus
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Boa Vista in the News
Boa Vista, a remote city in northern Brazil, received considerable attention in Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 travel book Ninety-Two Days, as it was the furthest point reached on his trip from neighboring British Guiana. The city is again receiving attention as a … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days
Tagged Boa Vista, Brazil, New York Times, refugees, Venezuela
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Haphazard Dust-bins
Spanish novelist Imma Monsó has written an article inspired by the publication in Spanish of US novelist James Salter’s The Art of Fiction. Salter’s book is based on a series of 2014 lectures he gave at the University of Virginia … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A Little Order, Daily Mail, Imma Monso, James Salter, La Vanguardia
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Roundup: Vile Media
The magazine GQ India had an article about Asian-based novels satirizing Asian-based rich people. This opens with a reference to one of Waugh’s novels: It is an unassailable truth that where there is money, a thinly veiled roman-à-clef documenting the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Collections, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Herald, Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, GQ India, Guardian, New Statesman, University of Regina
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