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Tag Archives: Guardian
Evelyn Waugh’s Birthday 28 October 2003
Today is the 114th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birthday. This has been announced in several news sites that track this sort of thing. Perhaps not coincidently, the Guardian has chosen this date to report that Waugh’s grandson, Alexander, will announce … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Edward de Vere, Guardian, Shakespeare, Westminster Abbey
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Guardian Reports on “The War Aganst the Pope”
The Guardian has today published what it describes a “Long Read” entitled “The War Against the Pope.” This is by Andrew Brown and describes the opposition to some of the new Pope’s interpretations of Roman Catholic doctrine, especially relating to … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Guardian, Pope Francis, Vatican II
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New Hollinghurst Novel Reviewed in Guardian
The Guardian reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel earlier this week. The review is by Alex Preston and opens with a link to a Waugh novel: Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Oxford, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Alex Preston, Guardian, Luke O'Neill, Mark Voger, NJ.com, University Times
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Novelists Review Powell Biography
In yesterday’s papers, two novelists review the new biography of Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling. Philip Hensher in the Spectator declares that Powell has finally received the biography he deserves. He also discusses the relationship of Powell and Evelyn Waugh: … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Claire Messud, Guardian, Hilary Spurling, Lara Feigel, Philip Hensher, Spectator
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Lost Children and Losing Margarine
The Guardian has published an article by Alex Clark about the theme of lost children in literature. The prime example is Ian McEwen’s Thatcher-era novel The Child in Time whch has been adapted for television by BBC/PBS in a 90-minute … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Alex Clark, BBC, Ellen Turner, Guardian, Spectator, The Conversation
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The Other Decline and Fall
The Guardian has reached No. 83Â in its selection of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time. The selection by Robert McCrum is going backwards in time so it is nearing its final stretch. This week’s column is devoted to … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Edward Gibbon, Guardian, Robert McCrum
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Another Waugh Writer
Another member of the Waugh family has turned to writing. This is Nathaniel Waugh, Evelyn’s grandson and second son of Auberon. According to a 2003 story in the Guardian by Alexander Chancellor, Nathaniel had recently moved to France from Shepherd’s Bush … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged France, Guardian, Nathaniel Waugh, The Oldie
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Scribble, Scribble, Mr Waugh
In their Daily Express column, Richard and Judy are reminded of Evelyn Waugh in a noisy pub where they can hardly here a conversation: But then the background cacophony dropped momentarily, just long enough for me to pick up a … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Andrew Keogh, Daily Express, Daily Post (North Wales), Guardian, Richard and Judy
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The Bolthole and the Beast
Both the Financial Times and the Guardian have stories this weekend based on Waugh’s writngs. They are also mentioned prominently in two Australian papers. Writing in the FT, Janan Ganesh sees what may be the passing of the middle class longing … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged country house, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Guardian, Spectator (Australia), The Age
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Opera on Life of Siegfried Sassoon to Debut
The Guardian reports on the debut of an opera based on the life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon this weekend at the Garsington Opera in Buckinghamshire. Waugh and Sassoon were contemporaries but not friends, although they were connected through their … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Guardian, Joanna Moorhead, Opera, Ronald Knox, Siegfried Sassoon, Sister Jessica Gatty, Stephen Tennant
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