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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh in the News
Evelyn Waugh is cited or quoted in several recent newspaper articles: In the Guardian, columnist Ian Jack has written a story in which he muses about the possibility that the Oxford-Cambridge rail line may be revived under a recent government … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Expresso (Lisbon), Guardian, New York Times, NYRB, The Inquirer (Philippines)
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Evelyn Waugh: Equal Opportunity Racist
The conservative website Heat Street has published an article by UK journalist Constance Watson defending Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief against charges frequently leveled at it for its racist remarks, citing several from Twitter as examples. As she points out, the book … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Twitter, Waugh Family
Tagged Constance Watson, Heat Street
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The Loved One Declared Favorite Novella
Hatchards book shop on Piccadilly has declared Waugh’s The Loved One to be its favorite novella: Over the last eight months Hatchards has run a campaign to discover which novella of the last 200 years is our customers favourite. We are … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Hatchards, Novella
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Waugh in the Public Domain
The Public Domain Review (a website devoted to the promotion of the free expression of ideas) has published a list of artists whose works will enter the public domain in some jurisdictions next year. In some countries this happens 50 years after … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Discussions
Tagged Copyright, Public Domain Review
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Waugh Books Feature in Best of Year Listings
UK newspapers have begun listing their best of the year selections, and books about Waugh feature in several of them. Philip Eade’s biography was named in numerous papers. The Financial Times included the book in its selections of best literary non-fiction: … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Douglas Patey, Financial Times, Guardian, Philip Eade, Sunday Times
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Waugh Makes Appearance in SAS Book
Evelyn Waugh makes an appearance in a new book Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre that is excerpted in The Daily Beast. This is a history of the Special Air Service brigade (SAS) and its founder David Stirling. Waugh knew Stirling … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Ben Macintyre, David Stirling, Special Air Service, The Daly Beast
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Scoop Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this week rebroadcast a two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This was written by Jeremy Front who has also adapted for radio Decline and Fall (2016), Sword of Honour (2013) and Brideshead Revisited (2003). The Scoop dramatization was first … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Front
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Feast Day of Edmund Campion Marked
Yesterday was the feast day in the Roman Catholic Church for St Edmund Campion. It was marked on two Roman Catholic websites with quotations from Waugh’s biography of Campion first published in 1935. On the website of the Association of Catholic Women … Continue reading
David Pryce-Jones Reviews Eade Biography (Updated)
David Pryce-Jones, son of author Alan Pryce-Jones who was Waugh’s near contemporary at Oxford but not close friend, has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh in the National Review. He begins with an apology for having written an unfavorable review … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged David Pryce-Jones, National Review, Philip Eade
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Waugh Novel on Winter Reading List
The news webpage Business Insider has published a list of recommended books by British authors for reading on the long, cold winter nights now being experienced rather early this year in the UK. Among the 15 books selected, about half are … Continue reading
Posted in Scoop
Tagged Business Insider, winter reading
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