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Category Archives: Oxford
Literary Drinking Bouts
In today’s Guardian there is an article in the “Rereading” column by Mark Forsyth discussing the 10 most entertaining discriptions of drinking bouts in literature. One of those included is from Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall: Decline and Fall starts … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged binge drinking, Guardian, Mark Forsyth
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Alexander Waugh Replies: Whose Howlers?
In a previous post, we noted Lewis Jones’ selection in The Spectator of Alexander Waugh’s recent book on the identity of Shakespearian authorship as a book of the year. Jones had some reservations about the book, to which Mr Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Independent Theatre Adelaide, Lewis Jones, Shakespeare, Spectator
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Report of Bodleian Waugh Exhibit
A Spanish-language blogger posting on En Compostela (literally “In Compostela”, probably referring to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain) has written an illustrated report of a visit to the Evelyn Waugh exhibition (“City of Acquatint”) at the Bodleian Library in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Events, Oxford
Tagged "En Compostela", Bodleian Library
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Waugh’s Watering Holes in the News
Several of Waugh’s pre-war venues have been in the papers recently. The Abingdon Arms in Beckley (near Oxford) was frequently visited by Waugh in his student days and thereafter, sometimes accompanied by his friend Alastair Graham. He wrote some of … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Abingdon Arms Beckley, Daily Telegraph, Lygon Arms Broadway, Oxford Mail, Savile Club
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Simon Schama’s Guilty Pleasure
Historian, author and TV presenter Prof Simon Schama is interviewed by The Book Report column of the Toronto Globe and Mail. After identifying Tolstoy’s War and Peace as the book he has most reread (not too surprising for a historian), … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged First Things, Globe and Mail, Guardian, Peter Hitichins, Simon Schama
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Waugh: Letter Writing, Divorce Reform, and Wadham College
The nondenominational religious journal First Things has an article about what is seen as the dying art of letter writing. This is written by R E Colombini and entitled “So Long, Age of Letters”. He uses as a case study … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged First Things, Law and Literature, Mary Francis Coady, Maurice Bowra, Robin Esser, The Times, Thomas Merton
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Mary Wesley Letters Published
The letters between novelist Mary Wesley and her second husband Eric Siepmann have been published and are reviewed by D J Taylor in The Times. The book is entitled Darling Pol and is edited by Wesley’s biographer Patrick Marnham. Wesley and … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Eric Seipmann, Mary Wesley, Patrick Marnham, The Times
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Campion Hall Takes Part in Complete Works Edition
The October issue of Campion News, the newsletter of Campion Hall, Oxford, has announced its participation in the OUP’s Complete Works of Waugh project: The recognised authority on Edmund Campion, Professor Gerard Kilroy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hall, is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall Oxford, Gerard Kilroy
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