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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Another Private Chapel Story
The Times reports that singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran plans to build a private chapel near his home in Suffolk. This seems to be becoming a trend. See earlier posts. The article by Libby Purves opens with a reference to a Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Ed Sheeran, Private Chapels, The Times
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Waugh and International Law
Dr Fernando Gomez Herrero from the University of Birmingham delivered a paper at a London conference on Languages Memory based on Evelyn Waugh’s description of his attendance at an academic conference in Scott King’s Modern Europe. The paper was entitled ‘About … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Dr Fernando Gomez Herrero, International Law, University of Birmingham
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Waugh and Proust: A Handful de Chez Quoi ?
A brief letter in this week’s TLS raises several interesting points about Waugh’s understanding of Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. This is from Dorothy McMillan at the University of Glasgow: Sir, – As your correspondents have shown … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dorothy MacMillan, Marcel Proust, Tatler Lady Kinvara Balfour, The Hill, TLS
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Roundup: Brideshead Matters
In an article posted on National Catholic Register, Joseph Pearce considers whether education still matters and concludes that it should but doesn’t always manage. In order to matter, education must teach the truth as revealed in the wisdom of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Edith Sitwell, Evening Standard, Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register, Rupert Everett, The Tablet
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Aston Clinton Profiled on Country House Website
The estate of Aston Clinton, associated with Evelyn Waugh in the 1920s, is profiled on the website of House and Heritage.org, maintained by David Poole. The estate became well-known thanks to its ownership by a member of the Rothschild family … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Chattels & Movables, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society
Tagged Aston Clinton, House and Heritage.org, Piers Court
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Evelyn Waugh and Simon Raven
In his Daily Mail weblog, Peter Hitchens wonders whether the popularity of the recent BBC series on the Jermy Thorpe scandal might presage a revival of the Alms for Oblivion novels by one of his favorite under-read authors, Simon Raven: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, Simon Raven
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Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018)
There is not much to connect TV presenter Anthony Bourdain, whose death was announced earlier this week, and Evelyn Waugh except for their inclination to travel to difficult destinations and then report about it. Bourdain was also a writer, and … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Remote People, Television Programs
Tagged Anthony Bourdain, Dappled Things, Michael Rennier
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Waugh Novel in New Penguin Series
Penguin Books has issued A Handful of Dust in a new series being sold in the UK. This is called the Penguin English Library and, with the latest additions, will bring the total to over 80 titles. Others in this new … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Penguin English Library
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“The Loved One” Anniversary Marked
The Pilot, newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese pf Boston, has published an article marking the 70th anniversary of the US publication of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is by Russell Shaw who explains that the book was published … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, First Editions, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Russell Shaw, The Pilot (Boston)
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Evelyn Waugh at the Hay Festival
An article in Vanity Fair describes an event at this year’s Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye that featured a reading from a work of Evelyn Waugh. So far as appeared from the schedule, there were no events in which a Waugh … Continue reading
