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Category Archives: Newspapers
Waugh Gender Misperception as Good Career Move
The Independent has published a report from its correspondent at the Bath Lterature Festival, Katy Guest. When learning of Time’s recent mistake re Waugh’s gender, Guest wondered if the perception of Waugh as a female writer might be a good career move. Women … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bath Literature Festival, Independent, Katy Guest
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Brideshead and Rhodes Must Fall
Timothy Garton Ash, Profesor of European Studies at Oxford and author of several books, mostly about Eastern Europe, has brought Brideshead Revisited into the debate about removing a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. The demand for removal was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Guardian, Oriel College, Rhodes Must Fall, Timothy Garton Ash
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Names (Yet More)
In today’s Daily Express there is another story inspired by Time magazine’s recent misclassification of Evelyn Waugh. The story begins with a short review of Wavian names: The late author of Brideshead Revisited might have been tickled by the error. … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Martin Stannard, names, Will This Do?
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Vile Bodies Inspired by Misery
In today’s Boston Globe, columnist Alex Beam has an article bemoaning what he sees as the seemingly inexorable spread of gratuitous happiness. He cites Evelyn Waugh as an example of what it’s opposite can inspire: What’s so great about happiness? … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alex Beam, Boston Globe, happiness
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Basil Seal Rides Yet Again
D.J. Taylor in the Independent announces low expectations for the BBC’s plans to revive its 1970s sit. com. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. The plan is to have the 74 year old Michael Crawford reprise his role as youthfully naive Frank Spencer among a … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Television Programs, Work Suspended
Tagged Anthony Powell, BBC, D.J.Taylor, Independent newspaper, Michael Crawford, Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
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Jacob Rees-Mogg Brideshead Fan, Up to a Point
The Daily Mail recently published a profile of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is a leading Euro-skeptic and has been called The Honourable Member for the 18th Century as well as a back bench Bertie Wooster. He might also be … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged car safety, Daily Mail, Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Charles Ryder as Character Model
Charles Ryder from Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited appears as a character model in two recent articles. In a Roman Catholic newsblog (Catholicphilly.com) he is compared to the hero of a recent Hollywood religious film called Risen, based on the origins of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Buenos Aires Herald, catholicphilly.com, Gorsky, Risen, The Great Gatsby, Vesna Goldsworthy
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Waugh’s Religion
In the current issue of the U.K. paper The Catholic Herald, an article (“Seduced by the ‘Devil’ Hitler” by Francis Phillips) opens with a familiar quote from Evelyn Waugh: There is a well-known story about the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Christopher Sykes, Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings, The Catholic Herald
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Heywood Hill Bookstore Still Thriving
The Mayfair bookstore where Waugh was a customer and his friend Nancy Mitford was a manager is profiled in this week’s New York Times “T” magazine (“Shelf Life” p. 196). This is the Heywood Hill book store, in an article by Sarah … Continue reading
Posted in First Editions, London, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Heywood Hill Bookstore, Nancy Mitford, New York Times
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George Osborne and the Brothers Waugh
In his latest column for the Independent newspaper (soon to be digital-only), D.J. Taylor expresses sympathy for Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. This is on the occasion of the announcement last week that Osborne’s brother Adam had been stricken from … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Independent, sibling rivalry
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