The following query was posted on the Anthony Powell blog. No one there seems to have come up with the answer. Do we know? If I had to guess it would be...
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Antony F. P. Vickery
afpdv
Mar 4, 2009 5:22 pm
I think it likely that one reason Waugh chose the name Crouchback is for the flavor it conveys of an old, distinguished, English family. Someone with an...
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kittycurran28
Mar 5, 2009 4:48 pm
At the moment I am writing my university dissertation on satire in Decline and Fall, Handful of Dust, Brideshead and The Loved One. I am addressing why Waugh...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Mar 6, 2009 8:06 pm
I don't think this book list got posted back in January. It lists 100 novels the paper thinks everyone should read. Scoop is #18. No writer seems to get...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Mar 7, 2009 11:53 pm
In the novel the fictional Crouchbacks held their land at Broome which "stretched undiminished and unencumbered from the Quantocks to the Blackdown Hills" (a...
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Antony F. P. Vickery
afpdv
Mar 14, 2009 3:53 pm
A short essay by Milo Yiannopoulos on Helena in the Catholic Herald asserts, "Waugh apparently regarded Helena as his finest work." Do we have a source for...
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John H. Wilson
johnhwilsonjr
Mar 14, 2009 5:06 pm
... In the biography by Christopher Sykes, Waugh is quoted as saying "It's far the best book I have ever written or ever will write." Sykes concedes that...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Mar 15, 2009 1:01 am
For some time the Guardian has been running a column called 10 of the Best. The subject of each column seems somewhat randomly chosen by the columnist John...
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Antony F. P. Vickery
afpdv
Mar 18, 2009 1:19 pm
A review by Anthony Kenny in the Times (London) of the new biography by Leslie Mitchell of Maurice Bowra, the Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and the...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Apr 12, 2009 3:16 pm
The Times has issued another series of lists--this time they post the top 10 one hit wonders, the top ten 2nd novel successes and the top 10 2nd novel flops....
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eeltinge
Apr 12, 2009 7:04 pm
My daughter is going to be working on her Master's degree in Oxford this summer. I will be with her during the month of June. I would like to construct a...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Apr 13, 2009 2:40 am
His boyhood home at 145 North End Road is still there with a bBlue Plaque. It's a short walk from the Golders Green Station on the Northern Line. The...
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John H. Wilson
johnhwilsonjr
Apr 13, 2009 2:58 am
... In addition to Jeff's suggestions, you should stop by the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, Mayfair, where Waugh married Laura Herbert....
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John H. Wilson
johnhwilsonjr
Apr 13, 2009 1:48 pm
... Twenty years ago I was interviewed for a place at Hertford College, Oxford, in Waugh's old rooms, I was given to understand, on the ground floor facing...
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Antony F. P. Vickery
afpdv
Apr 13, 2009 5:07 pm
If you'd care to make a trip to North Wales you could visit Arnold House, where for a few months in 1925 EW unhappily played the role of schoolmaster. As far...
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John H. Wilson
johnhwilsonjr
Apr 13, 2009 6:55 pm
The Institut Catholique d'Etudes Superieures in La Roche sur Yon, France is sponsoring an international colloquium on "Les Ecrivains Catholiques Marginaux" on...
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Antony F. P. Vickery
afpdv
Apr 17, 2009 3:55 pm
The Chris Beetles Art Gallery is holding a selling exhibition of 64 Cecil Beaton photographs, including the well-known 1955 portrait of a cigar-holding EW...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Apr 20, 2009 8:08 pm
In an interview, Waugh responded to a question about psychology with "Psychology. There's no such word. It's like slenderizing." The quotation is not in the...
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robertmurraydavis
robertmurray...
Apr 21, 2009 1:21 am
Poease ignore the request for information, which I realized, belatedly, that I might be able to find at my ex-university's database files. Sure enough--it's in...
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markus.malo
Apr 28, 2009 3:47 pm
... I'm not sure if this is helpful but I used Google and found two interesting links. Both prefer interview 1: Here is a link to the NYT (part of the 1949...
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Antony F. P. Vickery
afpdv
May 12, 2009 2:48 am
The Christie's auction of Important English Furniture and Clocks to be held in London on June 4th includes "a pair of late George II giltwood pier glasses,...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
May 21, 2009 10:34 pm
The Independent Newspaper has named the 1980s Granada TV production of BR one of the top 10 film adaptations of a book. Among the others were the...
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morrisjames64
Jun 1, 2009 2:40 pm
To tease Waugh, rile him a little Nancy starts one of her letters, either 'Happy 1961 happy 1961! or is it earlier, 'Happy 1954!, Happy 1958...or even...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Jun 5, 2009 3:43 pm
Alan Massie in this week's Spectator has an essay on characters in novels. He refers to EM Forster's distinction between flat characters who have no...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Jun 8, 2009 12:20 pm
In a New Statesman review of Sarah Waters' new novel The Little Stranger, the reviewer places it in a genre he calls the country house novel. He identifies...
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James Morris
morrisjames64
Jun 11, 2009 8:44 am
What's with the criticism of Waugh? Of course she's a rounded character. 'It is now time to speak of Julia'. After that we get a long exposition of her...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Jun 22, 2009 10:03 pm
The Guardian continues its top 10 series and a recent selection included novels about fruit. Unlikely as it may seem, Waugh's The Loved One was among those...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Jun 29, 2009 5:37 pm
Does any one know whether on any of his trips to the USA Waugh ever visited or lectured in Washington, DC. I know he received an honorary degree from Loyola...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Jun 29, 2009 6:56 pm
I think he was in the US very briefly on his visit to Mexico. That may have been the source for his information about the hotel in Brideshead. Fr D'Arcy...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Jun 30, 2009 10:45 pm
That would probably explain why there is (or was) an art museum named for Fr. d'Arcy in Chicago that comes up when I Google him. It now seems to be a Martin...
