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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh Cited in Republican Party Debacle
Political columnist Christian Schneider in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cites Wavian words of wisdom in connection with the present problems of the Republican Party: Evelyn Waugh once famously noted that the primary failure of the British Conservative Party is that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Schneider, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Metropolitan Papers Continue to Trail D&F Production
The Daily Mail has published more photos from the Welsh location setting of the BBC’s production of Waugh’s novel Decline & Fall. Most of these feature Eva Longoria between takes as Margot Beste-Chetwynde, but there are also several of Jake … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Jake Whitehall
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Waugh Connections
Times gossip columnist Patrick Kidd discusses Phiip Eade’s identification of models for Waugh characters in today’s “Diary”: …Lord Parakeet in Decline and Fall was based on Gavin Henderson, an exceedingly camp noble who, on becoming Lord Faringdon, opened a speech … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, Hampstead, Letters, London, Newspapers
Tagged Canonbury Square, George Orwell, Islington Gazette, Isokon, RIBA, Times newspaper
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All Converts Together
A recent issue of the National Catholic Register, a Roman Catholic newspaper, journalist Rick Becker writes of his discovery and enjoyment of Mary Frances Coadey’s 2015 book Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain. He … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged Mary Frances Coadey, National Catholic Register, Rick Becker
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Waugh in the Daily Mail
Evelyn Waugh rates two mentions in this week’s issues of the Daily Mail. Gossip columnist Ephraim Hardcastle has this takeaway from Philip Eade’s biography: Was literary giant Evelyn Waugh, who died in 1966 aged 62, a paedophile? According to a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged Daily Mail, Ephraim Hardcastle, Eva Longoria, Philip Eade
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Eade Biography Reviewed in Antipodes
The new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade is reviewed by Mark McGinness in the Sydney Morning Herald. After summarizing Waugh’s life as reflected in Eade’s book McGinness concludes: Waugh’s work has and will endure. Leicester University and Oxford University … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Mark McGinness, Philip Eade, Sydney Morning Herald
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Two More Reviews of Waugh Biography: a plus and a minus
Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh is reviewed in the Irish Independent newspaper and the Catholic World Report. The Independent’s reviewer is Ellis O’Hanlon who begins by noting the abundance of biographical and autobiographical material already available: This latest addition has … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic World Report, Independent newspaper (Ireland), Philip Eade
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Biography Reviewed in Waugh’s Old Neighborhoods
The new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade has been reviewed in the Camden Review, which is an arts and entertainment section carried in local North London papers, including the Camden New Journal and the Islington Tribune. The review … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Complete Works, Hampstead, London, Newspapers
Tagged Camden New Journal, Gerald Isaaman, Islington Tribune, Liz Dexter, Philip Eade
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Good-bye to Fleet Street
The Independent newspaper, now online only, reports that the last journalists have now left their Fleet Street premises. The final departures were two reporters for the Dundee Sunday Post. In a panegyric to the former home of British journalism. the … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Fleet Street, Independent
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