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Tag Archives: Daily Telegraph
Janetta Parladé (1921-2018)
The Daily Telegraph has announced the death of Janetta Parladé. As a young woman, she was a member of the Horizon magazine social set centering on the editor Cyril Connolly. Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Cvil War: Janetta … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Daily Telegraph, Horizon magazine, Janetta Parladé, The Times
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Alan Bell (1942-2018)
Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph announces the death of Alan Scott Bell. He was former librarian (1993-2002) 0f the London Library where he oversaw major building projects and computerization. According to an earlier notice on the London Library’s website, his death occurred … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Scott Bell, Daily Telegraph, London Library
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Updates: Brideshead Tonite
The Daily Telegraph offers this rather downbeat description in its TV schedules of the 2008 Brideshead Revisited film adaptation: In the light of the 1981 TV version of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, you do have to admire the chutzpah of anyone else giving … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, El Pais, The Oldie
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Tom Wolfe 1930-2018
American novelist, Tom Wolfe, died earlier this week. He will probably be best remembered for his innovative journalism of the 1960s, 70s and 80s but he also branched into fiction with a satirical novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, in … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Ben Lawrence, Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Die Zeit, Jens Jessen, Tom Wolfe, William Cash
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Roundup: Eating with Waugh
The Daily Telegraph has a profile of the London fish restaurant Wilton’s on Jermyn Street in St James’s. It is to fish what Rules is to meat, and Waugh is associated with both of them. According to the Telegraph: The … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, London, Sword of Honour
Tagged Architectural Digest, Bellamy's, Daily Telegraph, David Foster Wallace, New English Review, Open Syllabus Project, The Independent, Wilton's
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Weekend Roundup: Waugh in the Book Reviews
The Daily Telegraph reviews a book by Julie Summers entitled Our Uninvited Guests about the wartime use of British country houses to shelter evacuated refugees from the bombed out cities or provide military bases. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged America, Bob Dylan, Daily Telegraph, Margaret Millar, Mark Twain, Ross McDonald, Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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Alec Waugh, Art Collector
A recent article in the Daily Telegraph profiled a little known artist named Cedric Morris (1889-1982) whose paintings seem to be enjoying a renewal of interest. The article in the Telegraph’s “Luxury: Art” column is by Colin Gleadell and explains that … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Newspapers
Tagged Bridport News, Cedric Morris, Daily Telegraph, Philip Mould
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