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Category Archives: Locations
Waugh in the Food Columns
Lisa Hilton, biographer, novelist and now food critic for Standpoint magazine, was apparently assigned to write a review of a new Italian restaurant in Covent Garden called Margot. This establishment was downgraded by some other food critics such as Jay … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Events, Labels, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daniel Hannan, Folio Society, Lisa Hilton, obesity, Puglia, Standpoint, V&A Museum
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Oxford Mail Surveys Complete Works
The Oxford Mail has published a feature length article on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. The project will launch next month with the publication of four volumes, including Precious Waughs, the first of 12 volumes of “personal writings.” These … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Oxford Mail, Oxford University Press
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Handful, Oxford and North End Road
Author Gill Hornby in her Daily Mail column takes up the literary genre of expat novels. This is in response to two of her children expatriating themselves: We Brits didn’t only build the model for expat life, we’ve also provided its … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Academia, Diaries, Hampstead, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Christ Church, Daily Mail, expat novels, Gill Hornby, Hertford College, North End Road, TomWinnifrigh.com, YouTube
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Waugh Events Announced
There will be a panel on Evelyn Waugh at the Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film & Music in October. This will consist of Paula Byrne, Alex Preston and Justine Picardie who will discuss the life and loves of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Festivals, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Alex Preston, Blenheim Palace Festival, Harper's Bazaar, Justine Picardie, New York Public Library, Paula Byrne
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Powell Lecture to be Given by Alexander Waugh
The annual lecture of the Anthony Powell Society will be given this December by Alexander Waugh at the Travellers Club in Pall Mall, London. Here’s a copy of the AP Society’s announcement: Anthony Powell Lecture Wavian Reactions to Anthony Powell to be … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Lectures, London
Tagged annual lecture, Anthony Powell Society, Travellers' Club
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Scribble, Scribble, Mr Waugh
In their Daily Express column, Richard and Judy are reminded of Evelyn Waugh in a noisy pub where they can hardly here a conversation: But then the background cacophony dropped momentarily, just long enough for me to pick up a … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Andrew Keogh, Daily Express, Daily Post (North Wales), Guardian, Richard and Judy
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Play About Sonia Orwell Opens in London
Domenic Cavendish writing in the Daily Telegraph reviews a play entitled “Mrs Orwell” that opened recently in London. This is about Sonia Orwell, the secretary at Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine who married George Orwell a few weeks before his death. There … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Theater, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Domenic Cavendish, Sonia Orwell
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The Bolthole and the Beast
Both the Financial Times and the Guardian have stories this weekend based on Waugh’s writngs. They are also mentioned prominently in two Australian papers. Writing in the FT, Janan Ganesh sees what may be the passing of the middle class longing … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged country house, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Guardian, Spectator (Australia), The Age
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One of Waugh’s Clubs Will House a School
The Guardian reports that the building at 106 Piccadilly from this autumn will house the Eaton Square Upper School: …the first new co-ed private school in central London for decades, which is preparing to open its doors to the children … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Locations, London, Newspapers
Tagged Guardian, Savile Club, St James's Club, White's Club
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