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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh Conference Details Announced
Details have been announced of the Evelyn Waugh conference to be held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California in the spring. Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector will take place on May 5 & 6 (Fri. & Sat.) to … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events
Tagged Huntington Library
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Waugh’s Psychogeographic Experience
In a posting to his weblog The Hollywood Walker, writer Geoff Nicholson compares the travel experiences in Malta of Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Pynchon. This seems to have been suggested to him by Paul Fussell’s 1980 book Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars. … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Labels
Tagged Geoff Nicholson, Malta, Psychogeography, The Hollywood Walker
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Visit to Oslo
A letter from Evelyn Waugh to a Mr Some on the stationery of the Grand Hotel in Oslo is to be sold by Forum Auctions later this month. The letter would have been written in August 1947 while Waugh was on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters
Tagged Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland, Norway
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Rex Mottram and Scott-King Reconsidered
In blogpost on the religious website Patheos, Tod Worner undertakes a review of the career of Rex Mottram and offers the results of his project in this conclusion: As I revisited Brideshead Revisited and the story of Rex Mottram, I … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Patheos, Rex Motrram, Tod Worner
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Death Comes for the Comic Novelist
The interactive website Ranker has set up a listing that describes 13 celebrities who died on the toilet. This seemingly tasteless and pointless compilation by Carly Silver is part of Ranker’s subject category entitled “Celebrity Deaths.” Most of the deaths listed are of historical figures, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
Tagged Dappled Things, Graham Greene, Martin Stannard, Ranker
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Waugh Panel at Cologne Literary Festival
A discussion of Evelyn Waugh is scheduled as part of the International Literary Festival “lit.Cologne”. This will be convened on board the ship MS Rhein Energie at Frankenwerft, KD Anleger, 50667 Cologne on Saturday, 18 March 2017, at 21:00pm. Here’s an abbreviated … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Festivals
Tagged Joachim Krol, lit.Cologne, Paul Ingendaay
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“Two Lives” Reviewed
Waugh’s biographies of two Roman Catholic priests (Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox) were published as a single volume entitled Two Lives in 2002. A paperback edition was issued in 2005. Both editions were published by Continuum International Publishing, an independent academic press … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Knox
Tagged Eve Tushnet, Patheos
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HHA Literary Trail (more)
Another local paper (The Gazette) has published a story about Evelyn Waugh’s association with a country house on the Historic House Association’s new literary trail. This is Woodchester Mansion located between Dursley (where the Waughs lived from 1937-1955) and Stroud. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dursley, National Trust, Nympsfield, Piers Court, Woodchester Mansion, Woodchester Park
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Novelist Nicholas Mosley (1923-2017)
The death has been announced of novelist Nicholas Mosley at the age of 93. He wrote several novels which are variously described in his obituaries as “heavy going”, “densely written”, “adventurous”, and “not light reading.” So, these are not exactly written … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Diana Mosley, New York Times, Nicholas Mosley, Oswald Mosley
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