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Category Archives: Waugh Family
Martin Green Reconsidered
Writing in the New Criterion, David Platzer reconsiders a 1976 book by Martin Green (1927-2010), late Professor at Tufts University. This is called Children of the Sun and is described by Platzer as a book about: the remarkable literary generation, … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged David Platzer, Harold Acton, Martin Green, New Criterion
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Roundup: Laura Waugh’s Lent
–In the Guardian, William Keegan compares the Brexit chaos to Waugh’s Decline and Fall: In order to switch off from Brexit in the evenings, your correspondent has taken to re-reading his favourite novels. Yet there is no escape! At the … Continue reading
Early March Roundup
–Laura Freeman writing in the Daily Telegraph (27 February) surveys children’s books and discovers that one of her favorites has been rated as having a “really high difficulty level.” This is Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men series and she sees the … Continue reading
Presidents Day Roundup
–An article in the current issue of Prospect Magazine wonders when contemporary writers will learn how to successfully incorporate text messages into fiction narratives. By way of background, the article by Jemma Slingo explains how Evelyn Waugh pioneered the technique … Continue reading
Auberon (More)
The Oldie magazine continues its reposting of Auberon Waugh’s “Rage” columns from its early issues. The latest relates to his thoughts on “Yoof” culture of the 1990s. Here’s a sample: Nothing will be solved by giving them more money, nor … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hart, Literary Review, The Oldie
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Evening Standard’s Waugh Twofer
The Evening Standard reviews a book by David Kynaston and Francis Green of UCL entitled Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private Education Problem. According to the review by Ann McElvoy: What interests these two centre-Left writers is the degree of insulation that … Continue reading
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Tagged Evening Standard, Public Schools
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One Humorist Reviews Another
Craig Brown writing in this week’s Mail on Sunday offers an article that is more in praise of Auberon Waugh as a humorist than it is of the recent collection of his writings. Brown begins with his assessment of Auberon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, Naim Attallah
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Roundup: Whigs, Scribblers, Converts and Teddy Bears
–In a recent Wall Street Journal there is a review of a new book by Jeremy Black entitled Charting the Past. This is a consideration of English history as described by historians of the 18th Century. It begins with this quote … Continue reading
Auberon Waugh (More)
Additional reviews of the new collection of Auberon Waugh’s writings (A Scribbler in Soho) are becoming available. The book was released earlier this week. Prof John Carey writing in the latest edition of the Sunday Times describes the contents as … Continue reading
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Tagged John Carey, Naim Attallah, Roger Lewis, Sunday Times, The Times
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Auberon Waugh “Celebrated” in New Book
A new book composed of writings by Auberon Waugh has been compiled by Naim Attallah and published by his Quartet Books as A Scribbler in Soho. This will be released in the UK on 24 January and is reviewed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, Naim Attallah, The Oldie
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