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Orwell Society Visits Waugh Site
A member of the Orwell Society has posted a report of a visit made by a group of its members to North London sites associated with George Orwell. The visit started in Hampstead with a stop at the site of … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Hampstead, London, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Sightings
Tagged Canonbury Square, George Orwell, Orwell Society
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Waugh Character Models Surface in Blogs
Two of Waugh’s character models have surfaced in recent blogs. These are Brenda Dean Paul and Kate Meyrick. Dean Paul may have contributed to any number of characters in Vile Bodies. She was perhaps the most prominent of the Bright … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, London, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brenda Dean Paul, Bright Young People, Gordon Meyrick, Kate Meyrick, The 43
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Quick Delivery of A Little Order
A blogger living in London (blogging as Dickon Edwards) has posted an experience of brick and mortar booksellers becoming more competitive with their online counterparts: There are many reasons to buy books from bookshops rather than Amazon, but one is … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, London, The Holy Places, When the Going Was Good
Tagged A Little Order, Dickon Edwards, Donat Gallagher
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Philip Eade to Appear at Oldie Lunch and Bridport Festival
Oldie magazine has announced the appearance of Waugh’s biographer Philip Eade as one of three authors at its 11th October literary lunch: This new study reveals that from his strained relationships with family and lovers to his religious and drug-induced … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Discussions, London
Tagged Bridport Literary Festival, Oldie, Philip Eade. Literary Lunch
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Scoop in the News
There are several references to Scoop in the recent London papers. The TLS has an article in its Blog about the comic use of the language of telegrams. It mentions novels by P G Wodehouse, Mikhail Bulgakov and John Swartzwelder … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Events, London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Philip Norman, Sun, Sunday Times Magazine, The 60s, TLS, V&A Museum
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Video Bookseller
Booksellers Peter Harrington have stepped up their promotion by showing their prize offerings on YouTube. One of their video offerings is a first edition of Waugh’s 1928 novel Decline and Fall with a pristine dust wrapper. The book is presented by … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, First Editions, Items for Sale, London
Tagged Peter Harrington Booksellers, YouTube
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Waugh Connections
Times gossip columnist Patrick Kidd discusses Phiip Eade’s identification of models for Waugh characters in today’s “Diary”: …Lord Parakeet in Decline and Fall was based on Gavin Henderson, an exceedingly camp noble who, on becoming Lord Faringdon, opened a speech … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, Hampstead, Letters, London, Newspapers
Tagged Canonbury Square, George Orwell, Islington Gazette, Isokon, RIBA, Times newspaper
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Biography Reviewed in Waugh’s Old Neighborhoods
The new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade has been reviewed in the Camden Review, which is an arts and entertainment section carried in local North London papers, including the Camden New Journal and the Islington Tribune. The review … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Complete Works, Hampstead, London, Newspapers
Tagged Camden New Journal, Gerald Isaaman, Islington Tribune, Liz Dexter, Philip Eade
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Good-bye to Fleet Street
The Independent newspaper, now online only, reports that the last journalists have now left their Fleet Street premises. The final departures were two reporters for the Dundee Sunday Post. In a panegyric to the former home of British journalism. the … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Fleet Street, Independent
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Brideshead Actor to be Honored at BAFTA Event
Jeremy Irons, who played Charles Ryder in the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, will be honored next month by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). He will take part in a secial event entitled A Life in Pictures: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, London, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BAFTA, Jeremy Irons, The Herald (Glasgow)
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