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New Books: Chagford and Fish Knives
–American novelist Chuck Etheridge has published earlier this year a new book entitled Chagford Revisited. Here’s the description from the publisher: Marker, an American Anglophile software engineer, has purchased the home Evelyn Waugh stayed in while writing Brideshead Revisited. He … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Humo(u)r, Interviews, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Catholic Herald, Chuck Etheridge, Daisy Waugh, TheAuthorsShow.com
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4th of July Roundup
–Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Harry Mount explains how the recruitment of spies has evolved beyond the “tap on the shoulder” formerly applied. After explaining how he tried and failed to get the tap, he mentions another example For decades … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Chateau Lloyd, Country Life, Daily Telegraph, InterestingLiterature.com
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Memoir of Combe Florey
Sophia Waugh, Auberon’s daughter and Evelyn’s grand daughter, has written a bittersweet memoir of Combe Florey House on the occasion of its sale. This appears in a recent issue of the Catholic Herald. Here are some excerpts: …My grandfather bought … Continue reading
Posted in Combe Florey, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Cathlolic Herald, Sophia Waugh
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Combe Florey House (More)
Alexander Waugh has kindly confirmed the following with respect to the Waugh Family graves next to Combe Florey House: The wall has now been fixed by family effort and EW’s grave is now approached up some steps from the church … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Combe Florey, Waugh Family
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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
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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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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Combe Florey Sale Coincides with Waugh Anniversary
In an article in today’s Times newspaper, Patrick Kidd writes: On Easter morning 55 years ago tomorrow [Saturday, 10 April 2021] Evelyn Waugh said his last Deo gratias. After assisting his priest at a Latin mass in the Somerset town … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Combe Florey, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged Patrick Kidd, Strutt & Parker, The Times, University of Texas
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Easter Roundup
–Edward St Aubyn has written a new novel: Double Blind. The Sydney Morning Herald explains why it may (or may not) appeal to Waugh readers: St Aubyn’s early prose can be almost unbearably sharp, mordant and bitterly ironic. The fictional … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Mail, Daisy Waugh, Edward St. Aubyn, Guardian, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Tablet
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