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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Retour à l’europe moderne
Waugh’s French publisher Robert Laffont has issued a new printing of the French translation of Brideshead Revisited (Retour à Brideshead). This is a paperback as was the previous version but has a new cover with new dimensions and pagination in … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged classics, Dallas Morning News, modern world, Robert Laffont, summer reading, translations (French)
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Two Openings and a Debut
A Waugh quote opens an article in the South China Morning Post about Djibouti: Not that long ago, Djibouti was known for little more than French legionnaires, atrocious heat and being at the other end of a railway line to … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Hampstead, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Djibouti, Elsa Lanchester, Risk.net, Running Past, SCMP, The Scarlet Woman
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Decline and Fall to be Shown in Overseas Markets
BBC First has announced that it will screen its recent adaptation of Decline and Fall in several overseas markets beginning in August. The announcement appears in online TV listing service TVTonite. BBC First is a TV subscription service which operates in markets … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Television
Tagged BBC First
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Waugh and Brit Grift
The online newspaper The Daily Beast (which owes its name to a fictional newspaper in Scoop) recently ran a story by James Kirchick entitled “The Brit Grifters and the Designated American Suckers.” This suggests a history of British residents whose careers have hit a wall in their … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged grifters, James Kirchick, The Daily Beast
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Waugh and Wales and Fashion
A recent article in the TLS entitled “Do the Welsh Just Sing?” by Samuel Graydon opens with a quote from Decline and Fall: “The Welsh . . . are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Alice Vincent, Charles James, Daily Telegraph, Samuel Graydon, TLS, Welsh literature, Wikipedia
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Tom Wolfe Alters Waugh
Novelist Tom Wolfe has written a detailed obituary of painter and photographer Marie Cosindas for New York magazine. In this, he explains that Cosindas is best known for being the first photographer to realize the potentials of Polaroid color film. She studied under … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Marie Cosindas, Marseilles, New York Magazine, Tom Wolfe
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Sports Day Revival
After falling out of favor, at least at the more progressive public schools, competitive sports are having a revival. According to Jane Shilling, writing in the Daily Telegraph, that has also created a renewed interest in sports days. For some, … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jane Shilling, Sports Days
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Waugh on Father’s Day
On the occasion of Father’s Day, in the San Diego Reader, a free distribution weekly newspaper, columnist Matthew Lickona has picked through his previous articles for those relating to fatherhood. This one from 1997 cites one of Waugh’s more neglected writings: …In … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Work Suspended
Tagged Diario de Cadiz, Father's Day, San Diego Reader
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Waugh and the Honours List
Twice a year (on the Queen’s Birthday and New Years) the London papers can be expected to drag out their list of those who in the past have rejected honours offered them just as the papers announce the latest list of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, CBE, Graham Greene, honours, Huffington Post, Maurice Bowra, Nancy Mitford, The Mirror
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Brideshead is a Picnic, but not Always
The Field magazine has an article about the traditional British picnic and urges its revival. After describing literary picnics in The Wind and the Willows and Emma, the article decides there are two basic types: … it would be appalling … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged family interventions, Joseph Sciambra, picnics, The Field magazine
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