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Tag Archives: The Oldie
MLK Weekend Roundup
—The Tablet has posted an excerpt from Waugh’s novel Helena in recognition of both the Christmas season and the recent publication of that novel as the latest addition (vol. 11) to the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the introduction … Continue reading
Soho and Auberon Revisited
A new book about Soho has been written by Darren Coffield. This is Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia. It was reviewed in a recent London Review of Books by novelist Andrew O’Hagan whose review may be even … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A N Wilson, London Review of Books, Soho, The Oldie, The Times
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Bastille Day Roundup
—The Australian newspaper’s “Media Watch Dog” column cites its previous mention of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop where the snobbery of the leftie journalist Pappenhacker was revealed. Waugh’s line was that a wealthy communist university-educated chap named Pappenhacker believed that the best … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged First Things, Greg Sheridan, Institite of Public Affairs, Peter Hitchens, Stinchcombe Parish Council, The Australian, The Oldie
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–Peter Quennell may be having a revival. Duncan McLaren (see previous post) has now been joined by A N Wilson in recounting his career. Wilson in a memoir posted by The Oldie discusses several first hand meetings he had with … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged A N Wilson, The Critic, The Hollywood Reporter, The Independent (Ireland), The Oldie, TLS
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Brideshead @ 75: A N Wilson, The Oldie and The Folio Society
The Oldie has posted A N Wilson’s introduction to the Folio Society’s 2018 reprint of Brideshead Revisited. While this may not be denominated by Wilson or The Oldie as a commemoration of the novel’s 75th anniversary, we should be entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged A N Wilson, The Folio Society, The Oldie
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The Oldie Returns to Brideshead
In its latest issue, The Oldie’s two cover stories are grouped together as “Return to Brideshead: From the film set to the smart set”. They are intended to mark the 75th anniversary of the novel’s publication as a book in May 1945. One … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television, Waugh Family
Tagged Nicholas Grace, Selina Hastings, The Oldie
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Beaton Exhibit Opens at NPG
The much-mentioned exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s photgraphic record of the Bright Young People of the 1920s opens today at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Waugh’s biographer Selina Hastings has written a review for the current issue of Tatler. It … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Interviews, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Ferdinand Mount, Guardian, Henry Lamb, Londonist, Robin Muir, Selina Hastings, Southby's, Tatler, The Oldie, The Times
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Roundup: Labels Reattached
–The weblog Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings contains a review of Waugh’s early travel book Labels. This is a thoughtful critique of an often overlooked book: This is certainly no saccharine account of a trip round pretty places; if Waugh dislikes a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Truth Society, Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings, National Catholic Register, The Oldie, TLS
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Mid-November Roundup
–The Oxford journal Cherwell reviews a current production of Hamlet at the Keble College O’Reilly Theatre. The review opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Would you not see a hundred Hamlets pottering about Broad Street?” Evelyn Waugh’s question is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Complete Works, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ambrose McEvoy, Cherwell, Daily Mail, OUPblog, The Oldie, Words on Fire
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“Lost” Rex Whistler Painting to Be Exhibited
A recent issue of The Oldie has an article about a painting by Rex Whistler which had been thought to be lost or stranded and unappreciated in an unknown private collection. The article is by Mirabel Cecil, co-author with her … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Malcolm Bullock, Mirabel Cecil, Rex Whistler, The Oldie
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