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Tag Archives: Duncan McLaren
Roundup: From Aston Clinton to Holkham Hall
–Duncan Mclaren has expanded his discussion of Waugh’s school teaching career at Aston Clinton based on his newly available materials. The discussion has been posted on Duncan’s website. Here is an excerpt from the introduction to give you some idea … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Duncan McLaren, New Statesman, NSS Magazine, Words on Fire
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New Waugh Photos Posted
Duncan McLaren has posted three newly-available photos of Evelyn Waugh. These were taken, probably in 1926, by one of his senior students at Aston Clinton School whom he had befriended. The photographer’s name was Patrick Grinling, and he is mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Photographs
Tagged Aston Clinton School, Duncan McLaren, Patrick Grinling
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Roundup: War Trilogy, Conference and Campus Novel
—The Critic magazine has published a feature length article on Waugh’s war trilogy, Sword of Honour. This is written by Max Bayliss and is entitled “Waugh at war: Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, The Criric
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Daylight Savings (USA) Roundup
–Duncan McLaren has posted on his weblog a discussion regarding Graham Greene’s possible portrayal of Waugh in his 1940s novel The Heart of the Matter. He was a composite part of the character based primarily on some one Greene had … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Guardian, Quillette.com, Russell Kane, The Jewish Voice, The Spectator
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World Cup Roundup
–A recent book with a Waugh theme was listed (with reservations) among the Daily Telegraph year’s best biographies: Daisy Dunn’s Not Far From Brideshead (W&N, £20) is less satisfactory. What should be a dynamite intellectual history of how three great classicists – Gilbert … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged Castle Howard, Channel 4, Church Times, Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, The Times newspaper
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Summer Bank Holiday Roundup
–D J Taylor in the latest issue of Literary Review has written a review of the new biography by Patrick Donovan. This is entitled Arnold Bennett: Last Icon. It was mentioned in a previous post. Here’s an excerpt from the … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, Evening Standard, Guardian, Literary Review, The Monthly
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Waugh Website Expansion
Duncan McLaren has rearranged his Waugh website in order to accommodate new entries. This involves creation of a new website where he will include all material relating to Waugh’s war and postwar life and writings (from 1939). Original material relating … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Duncan McLaren
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Harold and Robert and Evelyn
The latest issue of Valet magazine (No. 4) has an article by Waugh biographer and Waugh Society member Duncan McLaren entitled “An Oxford Cartoon”. As he explains in the introductory paragraphs, it is inspired by a drawing that accompanies the … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Portraits
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Harold Acton, Robert Byron, Valet Magazine
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Columbus Day Roundup
—The Independent newspaper collected from its readers book titles that played on the titles of older books. These were published in a recent article by John Rentoul. One of Waugh’s was selected: 8. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, Interviews, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged American Greatness, Duncan McLaren, FlashBak.com, New York Public Library, The Independent, Wall Street Journal
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Smoke Signals from Waugh
Duncan McLaren has posted a lavishly illustrated photographic essay showing Waugh posing with pipe and cigar. Here’s a link. The pipe smoking photos seem to be post Oxford in the 1920s and the cigar smoking, post war. This leaves a … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Photographs
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Havana cigars
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