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Category Archives: Locations
Early September Roundup
–The online journal American Thinker has posted an article by Lars Møller entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s England: A Lament for a Lost World”. Here are the opening paragraphs: In the mid-twentieth century, the English novelist Evelyn Waugh chronicled, with elegance and … Continue reading
Bank Holiday (UK) Roundup
–Some of those around London may be interested in an event planned for Bank Holiday Monday. Here’s a description from the Londonist website: ISLINGTON WALK: The Bring Your Baby guided walks team offers a tour around Islington, aimed at parents and carers … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, London, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Londonist, Patrick Hamilton, UnHerd.com, Virginia Quarterly Review
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Early August Roundup
–Novelist Dan Fesperman in LitHub.com discusses five novels which are set in realistic but imaginary places. One of those is Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop: …Waugh’s skewering of Fleet Street, published in 1938, is set in the East Africa nation of Ishmaelia, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged CentMagazine.co.uk, LitHub.com, Prospect Magazine, The Oldie, The Times
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Early June Roundup
–A recent issue of the Daily Telegraph reports the death of Roger Cooper. This includes a discussion of Cooper’s extended imprisonment in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran: Roger Cooper, who has died aged 90, was a British journalist and businessman who was … Continue reading
Roundup: Books, Paintings and Photographs
–The latest edition of The Oldie contains an article that may be of interest. This is by A N Wilson and is entitled “Great War Stories”. Here is the opening paragraph: WWII inspired Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and Olivia Manning … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged A N Wilson, Duncan McLaren, Edward Burra, Eleanor Doughty, The Economist, The Oldie, The Times
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Piers Court Update
A notice posted several weeks ago indicates that Piers Court, Waugh’s former residence near Dursley, Gloucestershire, has been repurposed into high-end countryside accommodations. Here is a description of what is on offer: Piers Court is a unique and enchanting English … Continue reading
Roundup: End of a Literary Era
–This week’s issue of the New Statesman has as its Weekend Essay an article by John Mullan. This is entitled “The Death of the British Catholic Novel: Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover” and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged David Lodge, New Statesman, Somerville College Oxford, St John's College, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Winter Solstice Roundup
–Novelist Robert Harris has recommended the best 5 collections of letters for the Wall Street Journal. Those of Evelyn Waugh are included: Born in London in 1903, Evelyn Waugh was a reactionary whose distaste for the modern world included the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Anglotopia, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Tablet, Wall Street Journal
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Roundup: Euthanasia, Stiff-upper-lips, and Feminism
–American journalist Roger Kimball, writing in The Spectator, offers his views on certain aspects of legislation proposed by the new Labour Government: …What if you are old, sick or just plain inconvenient? Starmer’s government has a plan for you, too. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Podcast, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic World Report, MIT Press, The Spectator, Tyler Cowen
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Centenary of Waugh’s Coming of Age: 28 October 1924
Today marks the centenary of Evelyn Waugh’s coming of age on 28 October 1924, his 21st birthday. In Waugh’s diary entry for the following day, he begins: “Yesterday I became a man and put away childish things.” (Diaries, p. 182)Â … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Anniversaries, Diaries, Film: The Scarlet Woman, Hampstead, Oxford
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