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Category Archives: Newspapers
Scoop and “Fake News”
There have been several references to Waugh’s Scoop in the wake of the new concern with “fake news” arising from present US political turmoil. As anyone familiar with Waugh’s novel will know, this is not a new phenomenon. Perhaps the most poignant … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Bill Turnbull, Daily Mail, Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, Ronald E Yates
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“Prose Factory” in Paperback
The Times has selected D J Taylor’s The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 as one of its paperback picks of the week: Evelyn Waugh noted in his diary: “After dinner I went to the Savoy Theatre and said, ‘I … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Times newspaper
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Jesuit Journal Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of America magazine, the journal of the Jesuit order in the US, reviews Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. The review is by David Leigh and is not a favorable one: Any biographer of Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, David Leigh, Philip Eade
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Brideshead and Silence
Japanese author Shusaku Endo, a Roman Catholic, wrote a novel entitled Silence (1966) that has recently been adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese. The book seems generally to be considered Endo’s masterpiece. The story is about Jesuit missionaries sent out in the 16th century … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Martin Scorsese, Shusaku Endo, Silence, The Christian Review, The Power and the Glory, The Tablet
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Emma Tennant (1937-2017): Latter-day BYP
Novelist Emma Tennant has died at the age of 79. She was a prolific writer, leaving an oeuvre of over 45 books. She was also founder and editor of a 1970s literary magazine known as Bananas. Although she wrote in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Emma Tennant, Stephen Tennant, The Times newspaper
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Ducker of the Turl (More)
Another story has appeared in connection with the closure of the shoemakers Ducker and Sons in The Turl, Oxford. See earlier post. This will occur later this month according to the story in The Oxford Times. The store’s ledgers are to … Continue reading
Posted in Chattels & Movables, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ducker & Sons, shoemakers, The Oxford Times, Thrusal of Cambridge
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Rex Whistler Exhibit at Mottisfont Abbey
The Guardian has reported an exhibit of the works of artist Rex Whistler at Mottisfont Abbey, a National Trust property located in Hampshire between Winchester and Salisbury. Whistler decorated the interior of the house in the late 1930s when it … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Scoop, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Guardian, Ian Fleming, Maud Russell, Mottisfont Abbey, Rex Whistler Exhibition
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Country Life Revisits “U and Non-U” Controversy
Country Life magazine has published an article reviewing the “U and Non-U” speech controversy 60 years since it raged in the 1950s after it was publicized by Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, inter alia, in the collection of essays published … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Country Life, Nancy Mitford, U and Non-U
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Waugh Scholar Praises Eade Biography
Profesor Donat Gallagher, one of the leading Waugh scholars and a member of the Waugh Society, has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh. The review appears in the weekend edition of The Australian. Prof Gallagher certainly liked the book and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged Donat Gallagher, Philip Eade, The Australian newspaper
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