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Tag Archives: Maurice Bowra
Dramatist of WWII Yugoslavia Profiled
The Islington Tribune has published a profile of playwright James Hugh Macdonald. He has written a play called Happy Warriors based on the experience of Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill in wartime Yugoslavia. (See previous posts.): James Hugh Macdonald, a … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Theater, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Islington Tribune, James Hugh Macdonald, Maurice Bowra, Plum Sykes
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Waugh: Letter Writing, Divorce Reform, and Wadham College
The nondenominational religious journal First Things has an article about what is seen as the dying art of letter writing. This is written by R E Colombini and entitled “So Long, Age of Letters”. He uses as a case study … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged First Things, Law and Literature, Mary Francis Coady, Maurice Bowra, Robin Esser, The Times, Thomas Merton
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Waugh and the Honours List
Twice a year (on the Queen’s Birthday and New Years) the London papers can be expected to drag out their list of those who in the past have rejected honours offered them just as the papers announce the latest list of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, CBE, Graham Greene, honours, Huffington Post, Maurice Bowra, Nancy Mitford, The Mirror
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