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Tag Archives: Tatler
Tax Day (USA) Roundup
–Writing in the Times newspaper, Johanna Thomas-Corr comments on Queen Camilla’s appearance in public wearing her wedding dress. Thomas-Corr thinks that this is a good practice and one in which she herself has engaged. Here’s the conclusion: …I often wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Financial Times, Tatler, The Mitfords, The Spectator, Times newspaper
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Roundup: Single-Sex Schools, The Mitfords, and Tales from Amazonia
–In last week’s Sunday Telegraph, Rowan Pelling had an article entitled “When single-sex schools die, will we all be poorer?” Here is an extract: …I can’t help wondering how the shelves of children will look in 20 years after all … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Labels, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Tatler, The Mitfords
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Roundup: Waugh’s Highclere Moments
—Tatler magazine has a story about Lady Carnarvon, resident of the country house that has been the setting for the TV series and films of Downton Abbey. Another of these is being produced. Here are the opening paragraphs of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Hoover Institution, Journal of European Studies, Tatler
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Roundup: A Florentine Dinner Party, Some Interviews and a Pub
–The latest issue of Catholic Herald includes an article about Evelyn Waugh. This is written by Mark Roberts and is taken from his recent book noted below. In it, he describes an unpleasant dinner party in Florence that Waugh attended … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged American Enterprise Institute, Bristol Post, Catholic Herald, Daily Telegraph, Florentine Dinner Parties, New York Times, Tatler, TLS
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Labo(u)r Day Roundup
–The Catholic Herald has an article by Ken Craycraft in which he reviews the recent biography of Graham Greene (The Unquiet Englishman by Richard Greene). Here is an excerpt: Critics and biographers are always looking for glimpses of Greene’s own … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Wales
Tagged Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Tatler, The Times
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Deal on New Brideshead Series Reported Imminent
It has been reported in the Daily Mail, Radio Times and Deadline that a deal on a new Brideshead Revisited TV series by the BBC and HBO is imminent. Here’s the story as reported in Tatler: 2020 marks the 75th … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Baz Bambigboye, BBC, Daily Mail, Tatler
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New Book Features Madresfield
The Daily Mail has posted an excerpt from a new book about English country houses. This is by Clive Aslet, former editor of Country Life and is entitled Old Homes, New Life. It is based on visits he has made … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Country Houses, Daily Mail, Madresfield Court, Tatler
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End-of-July Roundup
—The Economist magazine’s 1843 section has an article by Catherine Nixey entitled: “The death of nostalgia”. It is subtitled: “People used to pine for a simpler life. Now they’ve got it – and it’s not all it’s cracked up to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Economist, First Things, Harry Mottram, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tatler, The Spectator
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Cyril in Fiction: Roundup
–In his latest posting, Duncan Mclaren discusses yet another of Waugh’s friends. This time it is Cyril Connolly’s turn. McLaren looks at Cyril’s appearances in several of Waugh’s novels, at first obliquely as a name assigned to an unrelated character … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Tourist in Africa, Evelyn Waugh Studies, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Nell Zink, New York Review of Books, Tatler, TV Guide
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V-E Day Roundup
–As the observance of the 75th anniversary of V-E Day approaches, the Daily Mail has posted in a slide show a collection of 1945 events that seemed to presage a return to a social system where class status was again … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, World War II
Tagged Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Tatler, V-E Day
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