- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Category Archives: Newspapers
Pearl Harbor Day Roundup
–According to a report in The Times, the Tate Britain is considering the future of Rex Whistler’s well-known mural that decorates the walls of its restaurant: A mural in Tate Britain’s restaurant depicting two enslaved black children has been described … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alec Waugh, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Arthur Calder-Marshall, Gentleman's Journal, Guardian, Jeremy Paxman, The Millions, The Times
Comments Off on Pearl Harbor Day Roundup
Evelyn Waugh as Seen by Anthony Blanche
This week’s Spectator has another writing competition in which a Waugh entry gets a mention. This is #3177 and the topic is “a well-known fictional person’s view of their author”. The Spectator’s Lucy Vickery cites some interesting non-winners in her … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged JCH Mounsey, Taki Theodoracopulos, The Spectator
Comments Off on Evelyn Waugh as Seen by Anthony Blanche
Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
–Stig Abell, former editor of the TLS, has written a book entitled Things I Learned on the 6:28 in which he writes about books he has read while commuting. The Times has posted a selection of the comic novels he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged ECADF, Ethiopia, Irish Echo, John Connolly, The Times, TLS
Comments Off on Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
Roundup: Ethics, Mimics and Graves
–The Minneapolis StarTribune posts a story about ethics in journalism built around a brief description of Waugh’s novel Scoop: …As serious as the news is, a few laughs can’t hurt. You’re in for a lot of laughs in the 1938 … Continue reading
Posted in Items for Sale, Letters, Newspapers, Portraits, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Chateau Lloyd, Ford Madox Ford, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Frederick Etchells, Joseph Connolly, Kingsley Amis, Minneapolis StarTribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Critic
Comments Off on Roundup: Ethics, Mimics and Graves
Pinfold’s Voices
Yuexi Liu has written an essay on Waugh’s 1957 novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. This is included in the latest issue of Modernist Cultures (No. 15/2, 2020) published by the Edinburgh University Press. Here is the abstract: Waugh’s last … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Modernist Cultures, Thornfield Hall, Yuexi Liu
Comments Off on Pinfold’s Voices
“Helena” Memoir in The Tablet
The current issue of The Tablet has what is essentially a memoir by Sara Haslam of her experiences in editing Waugh’s novel Helena. The book was published earlier this month in the UK and will be published in early January … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Harry Ransom Center, Oxford University Press, Sara Haslam, The Tablet
Comments Off on “Helena” Memoir in The Tablet
Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day Roundup
–In another article about the proposed new Brideshead TV series, Alexander Larman wonders whether there might not be more deserving works of Waugh for adaptation. This is published in the latest issue of The Critic. After noting that it will … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Billy Wilder, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Jonathan Coe, New Criterion, Night and Day, Sydney Morning Herald, The Critic
Comments Off on Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day Roundup
Memoir of “The Loot”
David Platzer has written a memoir of his acquaintanceship with Stuart Preston who was well known during his military service days among Waugh and his friends in WWII London. The memoir, entitled “A Sergeant Abroad”, appears in the latest issue … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Andy Warhol, David Platzer, New Criterion, Stuart Preston
Comments Off on Memoir of “The Loot”
A Biography and A Portrait
–Waugh scholar and EW Society member Ann Pasternak Slater has written a new book relating to a writer Waugh admired but knew only slightly. This is a biography of T S Eliot’s wife Vivien. The book is reviewed by Brian … Continue reading
Rosalind Morrison (More)
The Australian literary magazine Quadrant has posted a story by Mark McGinness which provides more details about the life of Rosalind Morrison who died recently at the age of 74. See previous post. He explains among other things her connection … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Madresfield Court, Mark McGinness, Quadrant, Rosalind Morrison
Comments Off on Rosalind Morrison (More)
