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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Leigh Fermor Novel Reprinted
New York Review Books has republished the only novel of Patrick Leigh Fermor. This was originally published in 1953 and was entitled The Violins of Saint Jacques. It is about a fictional Caribbean island where a volcano erupts and disrupts … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Helena, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Diana Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roderick Beaton, TLS
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Another Waugh Writer
Another member of the Waugh family has turned to writing. This is Nathaniel Waugh, Evelyn’s grandson and second son of Auberon. According to a 2003 story in the Guardian by Alexander Chancellor, Nathaniel had recently moved to France from Shepherd’s Bush … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged France, Guardian, Nathaniel Waugh, The Oldie
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Alec Waugh Remembered
The current issue of The Oldie has a memoir by Alexander Waugh of his Uncle Alec. He was known in the family as “Uncle Sex” and the memoir is written on the 100th anniversary of the publication of his novel … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Mail, Rachel Johnson, The Oldie
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In Search of Arcadia
In several recent posts we have considered the concept of “Arcadia” and its contribution to Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, and vice versa. BBC Four earlier this week transmitted a documentary entitled “In Search of Arcadia” presented by Dr Janina Ramirez and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, In Search of Arcadia, Janina Ramirez
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Huntington Waugh Conference Reviewed
Veteran Waugh scholar Robert Murray Davis has written an assessment of the recent Evelyn Waugh Conference at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. This is posted on the University of Leicester’s internet site: The symposium can’t be compared to previous … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences
Tagged Huntington Library, Robert Murray Davis
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Telegraph Names Brideshead Among Top TV Costume Dramas
On the occasion of ITV’s announcement of a new TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the Daily Telegraph has produced an album from what its fashion editors consider the most sumptuous costume dramas of all time. Granada’s 1981 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television, Twitter
Tagged costume dramas, Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, Paul Salopek, quotations
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The Roman Empire and Freedom of Movement
The feature of EU membership which more than any other seems to have contributed to Britain’s exit from that institution is freedom of movement. Yet, as explained in a recent article in the Catholic Herald, there is nothing particularly innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Freedom of Movement, Mary Beard, Natural Family Planning, The Rad Trad
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Dutch Newspaper Features Brideshead
Rotterdam newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (or AD) has published an article about the attitude toward homosexuality in films. The two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited are used as as a case study of developments over the more than 35 years that separates them. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Ab Zagt, Algemeen Dagblad, Homosexuality in films
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Waugh and Solitude
In an article on the weblog PanAm Post, Alejandro Jenkins declares the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to be overrated. One reason for this is the underdeveloped characters: The idea behind Hundred Years of Solitude (to create a saga-esque … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Conferences, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Natalia Sanmartin Fennolera, PanAm Post, The American Conservative, Yorkshire Post
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Scribble, Scribble, Mr Waugh
In their Daily Express column, Richard and Judy are reminded of Evelyn Waugh in a noisy pub where they can hardly here a conversation: But then the background cacophony dropped momentarily, just long enough for me to pick up a … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Andrew Keogh, Daily Express, Daily Post (North Wales), Guardian, Richard and Judy
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