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Category Archives: Newspapers
Roundup: Eliot, Milton and Stonewalling
–The current issue of the Journal of the T S Eliot Society (UK): 2022 contains an essay entitled “Different Voices: Evelyn Waugh and The Waste Land.” This is by William Myers who is presumably the author of Evelyn Waugh and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged ANQ, Independent, John Milton, T S Eliot Society (UK), The Spectator
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Gerhardie, Waugh and Boyd
Novelist William Boyd has written an essay for The Spectator about the influence of William Gerhardie’s novels on several British novelists of the interwar period. It is entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery.” Here’s an excerpt from the beginning: … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged The Spectator, William Boyd, William Gerhardie
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Harold and Robert and Evelyn
The latest issue of Valet magazine (No. 4) has an article by Waugh biographer and Waugh Society member Duncan McLaren entitled “An Oxford Cartoon”. As he explains in the introductory paragraphs, it is inspired by a drawing that accompanies the … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Portraits
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Harold Acton, Robert Byron, Valet Magazine
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Roundup: Boris Johnson, Arcadia and a Feghoot
–The New Statesman mentions Waugh twice in separate articles recounting the last days of Boris Johnson’s premiership. The first is by Jason Cowley and is entitled “In 2019 Boris Johnson had everything he wanted. But the gods were waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Feghoots, New Statesman, The Spectator, TLS, Washington Post
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Arnold Bennett Revival ?
Simon Heffer writing in the Daily Telegraph reconsiders the career and reputation of Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), an early supporter of Evelyn Waugh. The article opens with this: Despite the literary achievement of Arnold Bennett, generations have now grown up unaware … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Arnold Bennett, Daily Telegraph
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Roundup: Changing of the Guard
–The main story of the week is of course the fall of Boris Johnson. Veteran journalist Max Hastings writing in The Times brings a Waugh character into his assessment of Johnson’s career: Herein, I suggest, lay much of the extraordinary … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Newspapers
Tagged Jonkers Rare Books, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, National Catholic Register, New York Times, The Daily Sceptic, The Times
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Waugh and “Cablese”
A letter in the Guardian attributes a humorous but effective example of the use of “cablese” language to a quote of Evelyn Waugh. It is true that Waugh brilliantly parodied the language used by foreign correspondents and their home based … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged "Cablese", The Guardian
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4th of July Roundup
–It is reported in antiquestradegazette.com that the 1944 page proof edition of Brideshead Revisited from the William Reese collection sold at the Christie’s recent NY online auction for $23,940 (£19,050) including premiums. Here’s a link. This was the copy that … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Antiques Trade Gazette, Chris Pincher, Guardian, New York Times, Penguin Books, The Sunday Post
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Father’s Day Roundup
–The New Yorker offers a special Father’s Day treat by reposting several articles from its archives on the subject of fathers. One of these is the 2007 review by Joan Acocella of the book Fathers and Sons by Alexander Waugh. … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Autographs, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Piers Court, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Bonhams, Harvard Law School, New Yorker, The Critic, WiltshireLive.com
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–In the current issue of Commentary magazine, essayist Joseph Epstein has an article entitled “Good Grief.” This is a fairly light discussion of the heavy subjects of grieving and bereavement. In the course of the discussion, this appears: With Jessica … Continue reading →