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Category Archives: Locations
Ronald Knox Revival
This week’s issue of The Spectator reviews a new collection of Ronald Knox’s works. This is entitled Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons and is edited by Francesca Bugliana Knox, who is related to Knox by marriage. See earlier post about … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Howse, Katharine Asquith, The Spectator
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Pub in Combe Florey Damaged in Fire
A fire last week in The Farmers Arms, a pub in Combe Florey, damaged the structure and forced its closure pending extensive repairs. This was reported in the Somerset County Gazette. According to a later report on ITV news, the pub was … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged ITV News, Somerset County Gazette, The Farmers Arms
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Brideshead in the News: Charles, Sebastian and Celia
Jeremy Irons who portrayed Charles Ryder in the 1981 TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited was recently appointed Chancellor of Bath Spa University. He is the first person to occupy that position and was interviewed by Times Higher Education (THE) last month: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Lancing, Oxford, Television
Tagged Afar Magazine, Bath Spa University, BBC, Christmas blues, Emma John, Fr Angelo Geiger, Jeremy Irons, Queen Mary 2
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Powell Society Visits Waugh’s Oxford
The latest issue of the Anthony Powell Society Newsletter (No. 65, Winter 2016) is largely devoted to reports of a visit to Oxford made by its members last September. The theme was “Oxford Day Out: AP and His Chums,” and inevitably … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Oxford
Tagged Anthony Powell Society Newsletter, CRMF Cruttlwell, Hertford College, Robin Bynoe
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David Pryce-Jones Reviews Eade Biography (Updated)
David Pryce-Jones, son of author Alan Pryce-Jones who was Waugh’s near contemporary at Oxford but not close friend, has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh in the National Review. He begins with an apology for having written an unfavorable review … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged David Pryce-Jones, National Review, Philip Eade
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Combe Florey, Pevsner and the Waughs
In a recent article in the Guardian, literary journalist Ian Jack pays homage to the late Nikolaus Pevsner on the occasion of completion of the work he began in the 1950s. This occurred with the publication of the final volume of the Buildings of Scotland, … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Combe Florey, Newspapers
Tagged Nikolaus Pevsner, Penguin Guides
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Macaskie Twins Surface at London Book Launch
A posting on the Ronald Knox Society of North America website describes a book launch in London earlier this week. The book is edited by Francesca Knox and is entitled Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons. It is a collection … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Events, London, Ronald Knox, World War II
Tagged Francesca Knox, Heythrop College, Ronald Knox Society of North America
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John Betjeman on Stage
A one-man stage performance of Edward Fox playing Evelyn Waugh’s friend and Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, is currently touring Southern England. The play entitled “Sand in the Sandwiches” opened in Oxford last month and is reviewed in the Oxford Mail whose … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Edward Fox, John Betjeman, Oxford Mail
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The Cherwell Revisits Waugh’s Oxford
The Oxford student newspaper the Cherwell has an article by Altair Brandon-Salmon that compares the Oxford described by Waugh in Brideshead Revisited with that of today. He uses as his text the tutorial on Oxford manners provided to Charles Ryder by … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell (newspaper)
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A Tiger’s Dinner
An auction house in London has on offer a letter from Evelyn Waugh dated 4 December 1964 to Peter Luke, playwright and journalist. In it, Waugh apologizes for having written in A Little Learning that Luke’s grandfather, who was the father of … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auctions, Lancing, Letters
Tagged Peter Luke, Rupert Fremlin
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