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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Paula Byrne to Lecture at the NPG
The Jane Austen’s House Museum has announced a lecture that may be of interest to our readers. This is the T Edward Carpenter Memorial Lecture: “Jane Austen and the English Comic Tradition” by Dr Paula Byrne at the National Portrait … Continue reading
Mid-October Roundup
–The US cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has announced two broadcasts of The Loved One in November and December. They have also published what look like they may be expanded program notes (by Jeff Stafford) for the occasion: In … Continue reading
Incomplete Works
The Oxford University Press commissioned a review of three early volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh from its sister publication Essays in Criticism. A review of these volumes (Vile Bodies, Precocious Waughs, and Rossetti) has been ably written by … Continue reading
Charm Offensive
In the Wall Street Journal a review by Thomas Vinciguerra of Joseph Epstein’s new book Charm: The Elusive Enchantment begins with this: There was no avoiding it. On page 26 of Joseph Epstein’s excursion into the nature of charm, there … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Bullingdon Club, Charm, Daily Mail, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Wall Street Journal
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Literary Reputations in the Brexit Era
The Spectator has a review by Rod Liddle of the play People Like Us at the Union Theater in South London. It is written by Julie Burchill and Jane Robins and relates to a North London book group that is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, London, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, The Spectator
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BBC: Waugh and Eliot
There will be a program on BBC4 tonight that may be of interest to our readers. This is “Return to TS Eliotland,” presented by A N Wilson. It will air at 9pm and will be available on BBC iPlayer thereafter. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Complete Works, Documentaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged AN Wilson, BBC, Face to Face, Sunday Telegraph, TS Eliot
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Blunted Sword
A review of Waugh’s Sword of Honour appears in the latest issue of the journal of the Augustine Institute Faith & Culture. This is by Joseph Pearce who is also editor of the Saint Austin Review. Here are some excerpts: …The … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Faith & Culture, Joseph Pearce
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Lord Ottercove Redux
The pages of the TLS have been the scene for the reappearance of a character named Lord Ottercove who first surfaced (or not) in the novels of Evelyn Waugh and William Gerhardie. This discussion started with Paula Byrne’s review of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Censorship, D.J.Taylor, Lord Beaverbrook, TLS, William Boyd, William Gerhardie
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Political Roundup
Waugh’s novel Scoop tops the list of those works cited in this week’s political press: –Tina Brown writes on the 10th anniversary of her news website The Daily Beast and recalls the selection of its name: A vexing problem in … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Festivals, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop
Tagged Australia, Brexit, Ethiopia, International Policy Digest, The Daily Beast, The Times, Tina Brown
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Roundup: Football, Ocean Liners and Bankers
–In the sports weblog Onside View, a blogger compares Waugh’s opening chapters of his 1930 travel book Labels to the situation facing Arsenal FC’s new manager: … Waugh travelled, and one of his earlier writings on such subject, Labels, saw … Continue reading
