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Category Archives: Locations
Roundup: Lenten Love and Lots of Books
–In the Church Life Journal published by University of Notre Dame, Patrick Tomassi has written an essay on the themes of love in Brideshead Revisited and their particular relevance to the observance of Lent. Here is a summary: Sorting out … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alec Waugh, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Church Life Journal, Daily News (Sri Lanka), Evening Standard, Guardian, Mississipi State University, Palestine Chronicle
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Justin Cartwright (1943-2018): R.I.P.
In a recent issue of TLS, DJ Taylor reviews the works of South Africa-born British novelist Justin Cartwright who died late last year in London at 75. He wrote 17 novels (although, as Taylor notes, he disowned some early ones) … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Guardian, Johannesburg Review of Books, Justin Cartwright, TLS
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William Boyd to Lecture on Waugh
Lancing College has issued the formal announcement and details of its annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture that was mentioned in an earlier post: We are delighted to welcome William Boyd, author and screenwriter to Lancing for the first time to give … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Lancing, Lectures, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged William Boyd
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Last Orders at Mrs Roberts’
The Daily Mail reports that a Waugh landmark in North Wales is about to disappear. This is the Fair View Inn in Llanddulas which was the model for the pub in Llanabba run by Mrs Roberts (but never otherwise identified … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Daily Mail, Fair View Inn, Llandulas
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Literary Chagford
The following paragraphs open a recent story in The Moorlander, a local Dartmoor area newspaper: Chagword, Dartmoor’s Literary Festival, [was held last] weekend with big named authors coming to the festival in Chagford, but literary links go much further back, … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Locations, Newspapers
Tagged Dartmoor Literary Festival, Easton Court Hotel, Karen Farrington, The Moorlander
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Charles Ryder’s Van Gogh
Laura Freeman writing in The Times previews an upcoming exhibit at the Tate Britain. This is Van Gogh in Britain and relates to that artist’s residence in England between 1873-1876. He was not yet an artist at that time (this had … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged Laura Freeman, Tate Britain, The Times, Vincent Van Gogh
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Upgrades at Two Waugh Venues
Two of Waugh’s longstanding London-based venues (the Hyde Park Hotel and The Tablet magazine) have announced important upgrades: –What Waugh knew as the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge has announced an extensive upgrade that will be fully opened next month. … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, London, Newspapers
Tagged Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, The Tablet
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Compton Mackenzie Reconsidered
In the wake of the recent New Statesman essay seeking to revive an interest in JB Priestley, the latest New Criterion has published one seeking to create a renewed interest in another neglected novelist of the same period. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Compton Mackenzie, David Platzer, New Criterion, Sinister Street
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Some Waugh-Themed Entertainments
–Merton College, Oxford and the Lennox Berkeley Society have announced an afternoon program of lecture and music: “To celebrate Lennox Berkeley’s four years as an undergraduate at Merton (1922–6), and to mark the thirtieth anniversary of his death.” This will … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Brideshead Obliterated, Dixon Place, Elise LeBreton, Lennox Berkeley Society, Selina Hastings, The Scarlet Woman
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