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Category Archives: Waugh Family
Downside Abbey to Close
In a recent article, The Tablet announced that the Benedictine Abbey at Downside would be closed, after having previously been separated from the public school on the same site in Somerset. The school will remain on the site but the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged ChurchMilitant.com, Downside Abbey and School, The Tablet
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Septimus Waugh in The Tablet
The Tablet’s latest issue celebrates the magazine’s 180th anniversary since its founding in 1840. One of the featured articles is a memoir by Septimus Waugh of his father’s religious beliefs and practices. As summarized by the editors: “Evelyn Waugh is … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Septimus Waugh, The Tablet
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Roundup: 12 August 2020
–Digital magazine The Big Smoke–Australia has posted a story entitled: “Two literary sons an equal to their famous fathers.” This is by Loretta Barnard. The first successful father/son literary pairing she discusses is that of Alexandre Dumas and his son … Continue reading
Soho and Auberon Revisited
A new book about Soho has been written by Darren Coffield. This is Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia. It was reviewed in a recent London Review of Books by novelist Andrew O’Hagan whose review may be even … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A N Wilson, London Review of Books, Soho, The Oldie, The Times
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Bastille Day Roundup
—The Australian newspaper’s “Media Watch Dog” column cites its previous mention of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop where the snobbery of the leftie journalist Pappenhacker was revealed. Waugh’s line was that a wealthy communist university-educated chap named Pappenhacker believed that the best … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged First Things, Greg Sheridan, Institite of Public Affairs, Peter Hitchens, Stinchcombe Parish Council, The Australian, The Oldie
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Brideshead @ 75: Castle Howard, The Spectator, BBC
Today is the 75th anniversary of the first book publication of Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall and the Book Society jointly issued the book in London on 28 May 1945. The occasion has been marked in several recent events: –Castle … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Festivals, Film, Interviews, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio Scotland, Castle Howard, Chris Ridgway, Jenny Niven, Philip Hensher, The Evening Standard, The Spectator
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Wanted: Comic Novelists
Writing in the UK-based magazine The Critic, Alexander Larman bemoans the lack of comic novels in today’s literary marketplace. This is in an article entitled “Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time? Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?” … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Alexander Larman, comic novels, The Critic
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The Spectator at 10,000 (More)
The Spectator’s celebration of its 10,000th issue continues to spread and produce comment. The Daily Telegraph provides an opportunity for The Spectator’s current editor Fraser Nelson to explain what he has found to be the magazine’s approach to politics: …David … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, James F Buckley Jr, National Review, Senator Joseph McCarthy, The Spectator
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New Yorker’s “Waugh Stories”
The New Yorker has reposted its 2007 article entitled “Waugh Stories”. This apparently began life as a review of Alexander Waugh’s 2004 book Fathers and Sons but grew into something more ambitious in which the reviewer Joan Acocella launches into … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Articles, Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Newspapers
Tagged Joan Acocella, New Yorker, Private Eye Diary
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The Spectator at 10,000
The Spectator, always proud of its heritage as the oldest periodical in English, is now celebrating the publication of its 10,000th issue. As part of this, they commissioned a clerihew competition (“Two couplets, AABB, metrically clunky, laconic and humorous in … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Jeffress, clerihews, The Spectator
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