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Category Archives: World War II
Roundup: Two Letters and a Vase
—The Spectator has an article by Dot Wordsworth that features a misattribution to Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the opening: ‘Evelyn Waugh,’ said my husband when I asked who came up with the analogy of carrying a Ming vase. He was, in … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford, World War II
Tagged New York Times, Sotheby's, The Guardian, The Spectator
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Rex Whistler Anniversary Commemorated
Next month will mark the 80th anniversary of the death of Rex Whistler on 18 July 1944. He died in France as part of the invasion force following D-Day. The Salisbury Museum has mounted a special exhibition of his work … Continue reading
Roundup: 80th D-Day Anniversary
–The BBC posted an article on WWII parachute training in connection with its observance last week of the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings. Here’s an excerpt: …All the British paratroopers who landed in the early hours [of the … Continue reading
Auction Sale of Two Waugh Letters
An online auction is offering for sale a 1945 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a Conservative MP. This relates to the policies of the British Government in Yugoslavia during and after WWII. Here is the seller’s listing info as posted … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auctions, Internet, Items for Sale, Letters, Ronald Knox, World War II
Tagged Liveauctioneers.com, Members of Parliament, University of Leicester
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Presidents Day Roundup
–Ben Dowell reviews a new TV serial about Coco Chanel’s life in wartime Paris. The title of the review tells much about the story: “New Look Review–Nice Dresses: Coco Chanel–pity about the Nazi boyfriend”. The article in Saturday’s Times newspaper … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged Apple TV, Financial Times, Harry Clifton, Lytham Hall, Netflix
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Advent Roundup
–The religious website Thinking Faith has posted an essay by Gerard Kilroy, who is, inter alia, co-editor of the recently published volume of Edmund Campion in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. In this essay, Kilroy explains in some detail the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Edmund Campion, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Catholic Insight, Financial Review (Australia), New York Review of Books, The Times, Thinking Faith
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Roundup: Rereading Black Mischief
–A recent column of The Times “Rereading” series contains a brief essay on Waugh’s 1932 comic novel Black Mischief. The column, published in today’s edition, is by Will Lloyd. Here’s the opening: One afternoon in the absurdly early Thirties, Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Remote People, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged European Conservative, Sunday Times, The Times, Welt
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Roundup: Mostly Books
–In Saturday’s Daily Telegraph politician and journalist Charles Moore sees connections between Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy and a new book by Daniel Finkelstein. Here are the opening paragraphs: I have just caught up with Daniel Finkelstein’s newish book … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Internet, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Julian Jebb, Murial Spark, Neglected Books Page, Paris Review, Viva King
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Roundup: From Addis to Epstein
—The Reporter, an Ethiopian English-language journal, has identified the wholesale modernization of the country’s capital Addis Ababa as a matter of cultural concern. Here are the opening paragraphs: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s enigmatic capital, is undergoing a makeover that’s as controversial … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Remote People, World War II
Tagged Joseph Epstein, P.G.Wodehouse, Quadrant, The American Spectator, The Reporter (Ethiopia), WordOnFire
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