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Tag Archives: Sofka Zinovieff
Faringdon Auction Includes Waugh Portrait
Christie’s has announced a sale later this month that will include several items from the interior of Faringdon House, the former residence of Waugh’s friend Lord Berners. Among the items are a number of paintings and drawings by Lord Berners … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Evelyn Waugh, Portraits
Tagged Christie's, Daily Telegraph, Faringdon House, Frederick Etchells, Lord Berners, Sofka Zinovieff
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Peter Watson: Biography of Everard’s Angel
This week’s Spectator reviews a biography of Pater Watson, probably best known to Waugh fans as the financial backer of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine during WWII and early postwar austerity. The magazine and Connolly are satirized as Survival and Everard … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One, Work Suspended, World War II
Tagged Craig Brown, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, Mail on Sunday, Peter Watson, Sofka Zinovieff, Spectator
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Memoir of Lord Berners’ Menage is Published
A memoir of the residents of Lord Berners’ Faringdon House estate in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) has been written by the granddaughter of one (or possibly two) of them. This is The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me , … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Miscellaneous
Tagged Literary Review, Lord Berners, Robert Heber-Percy, Sofka Zinovieff
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