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Tag Archives: Daily Telegraph
Roundup: Flaubert’s Birth and Hitchens’ Death
–Novelist Julian Barnes has written a rambling retrospective of Flaubert’s career covering all of his books and many of his own and Flaubert’s obsessions. This is on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Flaubert’s birth and is published in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, CrimeReads.com, Daily Telegraph, London Review of Books, Ross Douthat, Town & Country
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John Saumarez Smith (1943-2021) R.I.P.
John Saumarez Smith who was widely considered as the last of London’s “gentleman booksellers” has died at the age of 78. He was the son of an Indian Civil Service family and graduate of Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. After … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Handasyde Buchanan, Heywood hill, John Saumarez Smith, The Times
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Clarissa Churchill (1920-2021) R.I.P.
One of the last of Evelyn Waugh’s contemporary friends died yesterday. This is Clarissa Churchill. Her father was Jack Churchill, Winston’s younger brother, and she was always close to Winston’s family. She grew up in a house in South Kensington … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Daily Telegraph
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Brideshead Floribundum
Waugh’s most popular book Brideshead Revisited seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. Much, but not all of this is directed to prior and projected film and TV adaptations: —The Spectator’s supplement Spectator Life several weeks ago posted … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Paste Magazine, RTE, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Hallowe’en Roundup
–Giles Coren writing in The Times surveys the plight of the male novelist in today’s literary market. After describing the difficulties of getting published in a world where publishers and readers are mostly women as well as the lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Collections, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Aleteia, Country Houses, Daily Telegraph, First Things, The Economist, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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End-of-the-Month Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph is about to bring back its Way of the World column. This was a home of irreverent political satire from 1955 when it was started by Michael Wharton until 2008 when Craig Brown gave it up. In … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged BritBox, Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, Guardian, The Economist
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Labo(u)r Day Roundup
–The Catholic Herald has an article by Ken Craycraft in which he reviews the recent biography of Graham Greene (The Unquiet Englishman by Richard Greene). Here is an excerpt: Critics and biographers are always looking for glimpses of Greene’s own … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Wales
Tagged Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Tatler, The Times
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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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Roundup: Public Schools, Pronunciation and Epigraphs
–The Daily Telegraph has an essay by Rupert Christiansen reviewing the English obsession with Public Schools. This begins with a consideration of several novels, films and stage plays that center on the miserable lives suffered by both students and teachers … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, New Statesman, Rev Sydney Smith, The Literary Hub
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“Bridey’s Bombshell” Queried
In his Daily Mail blog, Peter Hitchens wonders whether Evelyn Waugh got it wrong about the Roman Catholic view of marriage in Brideshead Revisited, at least as it has been applied to the recent marriage of twice-divorced Boris Johnson in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Peter Hitchens, The Tablet
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