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Category Archives: Newspapers
Lancing Chapel to be Completed
The Times newspaper reports, in an article by Nicola Woolcock, that the chapel at Lancing College will be completed over 150 years after it was begun: A stunning and distinctive place of worship towering over the landscape has remained unfinished … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Lancing Chapel, The Times newspaper
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Columbus Day Roundup
–The Financial Times recently conducted an extensive interview of the new editor of the Daily Mail, Geordie Greig. Here’s the opening: There is one thing that a journalist can count on, said a character in Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop: … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Interviews, London, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged 1984, Daily Mail, Edith Sitwell, Financial Times, Radio Spada, The Sunday Times
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Cardinal Newman’s Canonization
Several papers carry stories commemorating Cardinal John Henry Newman on the occasion of his canonization. This will take place tomorrow in Rome. One story, from the religious website Aleteia, mentions the first Newman Center for university students at Oxford that … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Events, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Aleteia, Cardinal John Henry Newman, Fr F W Faber, The Sunday Times
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Profile of Fr Martin D’Arcy on Italian Website
The life and career of Fr Martin D’Arcy are profiled in a recent issue of the Italian-language religious website Radio Spada. Fr D’Arcy was Waugh’s friend and Roman Catholic mentor from the time of his conversion to that faith. He … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall, Martin D'Arcy, Radio Spada
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Early October Roundup
–In the current issue of TLS, writer Henry Hitchins reviews the two recent collections of the writings of Auberon Waugh. The review, entitled “Like a fine whine”, opens with this: “Looking back over my career to date, and at all … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged BBC, HBO, Mail on Sunday, Robert Laffont, The Spectator, TLS
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Waugh Appears in Danish Trilogy
The current issue of The Spectator contains a review of translations of a Danish writer who describes a meeting with Waugh in Copenhagen in the 1940s. This is Tove Ditlevsen and the books are entitled The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Spectator, Tove Ditlevsen
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Autumnal Equinox Round-up
–A N Wilson writing in the Times newspaper reviews a new book by Dominic Sandbrook. This is number 5 in a series Sandbrook is writing about the cultural and social history of England in the post Suez period. It covers … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged A N Wilson, Charles Moore, Daily Mail, Nicholas Coleridge, The Spectator, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Wodehouse Memorial Dedicated in Westminster Abbey
Several papers carry the story of the dedication yesterday of a memorial plaque to P G Wodehouse in Westminster Abbey. This is from the Financial Times: Nestled above playwright Noël Coward and to the right of broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, a … Continue reading
Waugh, Nabokov and a Booker Nominee
In today’s Times newspaper, critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews a long-shot Booker prize nominee entitled Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. This is a 1000 page novel written in the form of a single sentence. The review opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Booker Prize, D.J.Taylor, Lucy Ellmann, The Times
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Positive Light on 2008 Brideshead Film
Several recent articles have reconsidered the much-maligned 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited in a relatively more positive light: –In a essay published in TLS earlier this month, Mikaella Clements writes about the theme of the “bath in twentieth century … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Ben Whishaw, Julian Jarrold, Matthew Goode, TLS
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