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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
The Loved One is Prescribed Reading for Europeans
Writing in his Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung blog, “Don Alphonso” informs his European readers that they cannot understand what is going on in the United States today unless they have first read Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One (in German translated as Tod … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Don Alphonso, FAZ, Laurie Penny, Milo Yiannopoulos
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Scoop Recommended on World Book Day
Today is World Book Day. The Daily Telegraph marks the occasion issuing another list of recommended reading–this is the Top 20 and includes Waugh’s Scoop: Last year Telegraph writers put together a list of the 100 novels everyone should read. From … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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Evelyn Waugh and the “Catholic Novel”
A blogger writing as Tychy has posted an article billed as a review of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock but is really an essay on Greene’s writing as a Roman Catholic novelist. The blogger (a non-catholic) begins by comparing Greene’s … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Andrew Biswell, Anthony Burgess, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, The Tablet, Tychy
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Waugh Topic of Lecture and Preview
This month will see Waugh’s biographer Martin Stannard lecture in Oxford and the BBC’s film of Decline and Fall previewed in Cardiff: Campion Hall in Oxford will host a lecture by Prof Martin Stannard entitled “No Abiding City: Evelyn Waugh and America”. Stannard, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Television, The Loved One, Wales
Tagged Anthony Burgess Society, BBC, Campion Hall, Martin Stannard
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TLS Reprints Review of “Miss” Evelyn Waugh’s First Book
In last week’s edition (22 February 2017), the TLS in its “From the Archives” column has reprinted its 1928 review of Evelyn Waugh’s first book: Rossetti: His Life and Works. This review was published anonymously, as was then customary, but … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged T Sturge Moore, TLS
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Anniversary on Horizon
A passage from Waugh’s 1935 biography of Edmund Campion has been quoted on a religious website by Fr John Hunwicke (formerly a teacher and chaplain at Lancing College). This is intended to provide a context for the observance next year of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Elizabeth I, Fr John Hunwicke, Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis
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Evelyn Waugh and Selina Hastings x 2
Forum Auctions has posted an early letter from Evelyn Waugh (sometime in 1929) relating to the writing of Vile Bodies. This is addressed to Lord Hastings and thanks him for the loan of a two-volume work about his ancestor Selina, Countess … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Forum Auctions, Lord Hastings, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings
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Telegraph Makes Literary Tour of Stately Homes
In today’s Property section of the Daily Telegraph, there is a discussion of a tour of stately homes that have a literary connection. This is by Eleanor Doughty, known to this parish as a Waugh fan. She starts with a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Blackpool Gazete, Daily Telegraph, Eleanor Doughty, Henry de Vere Clifton, Lytham Hall, Madresfield Court, Malvern Gazette, Stonyhurst
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Jonkers Issue Waugh Catalogue
Jonkers Books of Henley-on-Thames have issued a 70-page illustrated catalogue exclusively devoted to books and writings by Evelyn Waugh and his friends. Here’s a link to the online edition which is limited to books or other writings by Waugh or to which he … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Bill Deakin, Fitzroy Maclean, Jonkers Books, Yugoslavia
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Waugh and Chesterton Lecture on YouTube
A video lecture on the theme of “G K Chesterton and Evelyn Waugh” is posted on YouTube. This was delivered at the 35th conference of the American Chesterton Society convened in 2016 at Slippery Rock State University in Pennsylvania. It was written … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Lectures
Tagged American Chesterton Society, G.K. Chesterton, Joe Grabowski
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