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Category Archives: Newspapers
Roundup
–The exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s works relating to the Bright Young People of the 1920s has reopened in Sheffield. This was originally scheduled for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London last spring but was forced to close after … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Alexei Sayle, BBC, Financial Times, Millennium Gallery Sheffield, The Indiependent
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Mid-May Roundup
–Nicholas Lezard, writing for the New Statesman opens his article on cold weather angst with this: I was reading Evelyn Waugh’s first travel book, Labels, which for some inexplicable reason I had never got round to before, and I was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, New Statesman, The Imaginative Conservative, The Spectator, The Times
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The Cult of the Country House Reconsidered
A reference to the article of Matthew d’Ancona in the Evening Standard was inadvertently omitted from yesterday’s post on the critical reception of the BBC’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love. This is a pity because it … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Evening Standard, Matthew d'Ancona
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The Pursuit of Adaptations
The verdicts on the recent BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love are decidedly mixed. This is not surprising, since the advance announcements indicated this version would take a fresh approach, given that there had been two … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Nancy Mitford, New Statesman, The Spectator
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May Day Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph has a preview of the upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. See previous post: THE Mitford sisters would doubtless approve. Emily Mortimer, the daughter of the novelist John Mortimer [credited with screenplay for … Continue reading
Two Waugh Favorites on BBC
–Laura Freeman writing in The Times has provided more information on the upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel Pursuit of Love. After describing two previous Mitford-based TV series (by Simon Raven in 1980 on ITV and Deborah Moggach in … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC, Nancy Mitford, P.G.Wodehouse
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Oldie Digs up Grave Problems at Combe Florey
The Oldie magazine in response to recent stories in the national press about the sale of Combe Florey House has republished an article from 2016 by Teresa Waugh, Auberon’s widow and former owner-occupant of the house. This relates to the … Continue reading
Posted in Combe Florey, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Teresa Waugh, The Oldie
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Earth Day Roundup
–Several other papers have run stories about the sale of Combe Florey House. The most extensive photographic displays are in the Daily Mail and Country Life which also have brief discussions of the Waugh family’s associations with the house. The … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell, Evening Standard, Literary Hub, Nancy Mitford, Somerset County Gazette, The Spectator, theduran.com
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Another Inez Holden Reprint
The Herald (Glasgow) has a review of another reprint of a book by Waugh’s early literary friend Inez Holden. This is entitled There’s No Story There (1944) and is reviewed by Malcolm Forbes. Here are the opening paragraphs: Inez Holden … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers
Tagged Handheld Press, Inez Holden, The Herald (Glasgow)
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Tax Day Roundup
–An article in Lapham’s Quarterly commemorates Tax Day (even though it may have been postponed in the USA this year). This is from the recent book Rebellion, Rascals and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged BBC, Eton College, Lapham's Quarterly, Norman Douglas, Selina Hastings, Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Eudemon
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