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Category Archives: Festivals
Evelyn Waugh Studies 54.1 (Spring 2023) Posted
The latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been posted. Here is a summary of its contents from the Society’s secretary Jamie Collinson: It’s not often that someone finds a new angle into Waugh that yields genuine insight, … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Festivals, Letters
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Roundup: Late Stories, Stately Festivals and a Rare (but Misspelled) Burgundy
–This week’s TLS has a review of Inez Holden’s late stories recently published in a collection issued by the Anthony Powell Society. Here’s an excerpt from the review by Lindsay Duguid: …The stories share an elusive quality, with only the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Newspapers
Tagged Clos de Bèze, DBC Pierre, Guardian, Inez Holden, The Oldie, The Spectator, The Times, TLS
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Early June Roundup
–The New Statesman reports the confused results of the controversial Oxford Union appearance of Prof. Kathleen Stock, described as a “gender-critical feminist philosopher”. After the Union invited her to speak, a protest arose against her appearance as being unfair to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Chronicles, Daily Telegraph, Holland Festival, New Statesman
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St Patricks Day Roundup
–The current issue of The Critic magazine has the latest effort to revive the works of novelist Henry Green. This is in an article entitled “An off-kilter visionary” by Alexander Larman. The article prominently cites Waugh’s on and off relationship … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Festivals, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Theater, Vile Bodies
Tagged Henry Green, Holland Festival, The Critic, The Imaginative Conservative, The Wrap
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On Offer: Two Events, a Radio Series and Some Books
There have been two announcements of upcoming events in Southern England that may be of interest. The first is a joint presentation of the Victoria & Albert Museum and Vogue magazine: Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Lectures, Radio
Tagged BBC, Buckingham History Festival, Forum Auctions, V&A, Vogue magazine
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Evelyn’s Last Dance
Duncan McLaren has posted two articles in his Brideshead Festival series in which Evelyn Waugh ponders the contents of the last two volumes of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. These are Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Men at Arms, Put Out More Flags, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Duncan McLaren
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Castle Howard Exhibition: Brideshead Revisited at 75
The Castle Howard website features a fully and handsomely illustrated exhibition of photos from the two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited and other related sources. This illustrates in part how the two adaptations are similar in some respects and how … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Television
Tagged Brideshead Revisited at 75, Castle Howard
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Graham Greene and Waugh Discuss Powell Novel
In the latest installment of imaginary encounters among Evelyn Waugh and his Oxford friends at the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival, Duncan McLaren has Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh discuss Anthony Powell’s 1971 novel Books Do Furnish a Room. This was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time, Graham Greene
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Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
In Duncan McLaren’s latest series of articles, Evelyn Waugh’s friends from Oxford are collecting at the Brideshead Festival. The last of these, by my count based on Duncan’s own projections, is Graham Greene. The first installment of the Greene episode … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Humo(u)r
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Graham Greene, Titus Groan
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