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Tag Archives: Guardian
Waugh on Weddings
As the month of June approaches, Moira Redmond was inspired to contribute an article to the Guardian newspaper for May 20, 2014 entitled “Marriage plots: the best wedding dresses in literature.” The article is included in a regular column called Books Blog … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Miscellaneous, Waugh Family
Tagged Guardian, Margaret Waugh, Moira Redmond, weddings
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D. J. Taylor Explores Literary Reputations
In today’s Guardian (May 10, 2014), critic and novelist D.J. Taylor discusses the survival of literary reputations: Literary Hero to Zero. Later in the day, he presented a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 entitled Pulped Fiction, containing interviews, archival recordings … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh Society, Festivals, Interviews, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4, D.J.Taylor, David Lodge, Guardian, Literary Reputations
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Waugh Wins Place in Literary Bad Mothers Competition
In recognition of English Mother’s Day and to counterbalance the rash of greeting card excess, the Guardian has published an article by Moira Redmond entitled Bad Mothers in Books: a literary litany. Top award goes to Charles Dickens with a hat … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Articles, Miscellaneous
Tagged Brenda Last, Guardian, Lady Marchmain, Moira Redmond, Mother's Day, Nancy Mitford
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Jonathan Coe: What’s so funny about comic novels?
Evelyn Waugh barely gets a mention, but Jonathan Coe’s reflections in the Guardian on the comic novel are worth sharing: All of this leads us inevitably to PG Wodehouse, the elephant in my comic room, about whom I’ve been silent … Continue reading
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Tagged comic novels, Guardian, Jonathan Coe
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Lost Evelyn Waugh letters reveal thwarted love for ‘bright young thing’
From the Guardian: She was known as Teresa “Baby” Jungman, a beauty among the bohemian “bright young things” of 1920s English society, whose high-class hedonism inspired Evelyn Waugh to write Vile Bodies. She was also the unrequited love of Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Letters
Tagged Guardian, Teresa Jungman
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