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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
“Shevelyn’s” Version
In today’s Daily Telegraph online edition there is an excerpt from Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh to be published next week. The article is entltled: “The truth about ‘Shevelyn’: how Evelyn Waugh’s disastrous marriage shaped his fiction” and is based on a … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Evelyn Gardner, Philip Eade
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Guardian Reviews New Waugh Biography
In today’s Guardian (or as it is styled on Sunday the Observer) literary critic Robert McCrum reviews Philip Eade’s new biography of Evelyn Waugh. The book, entitled Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited will be published later this week in the … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Edmund Wilson, Guardian, Philip Eade, Robert McCrum
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Brideshead Reviewed in Richmond-on-Thames (More)
Two more reviews of the Richmond-on-Thames performances of Brideshead have been posted on internet theatrical sites. The first is by Zoe Skipworth on Plays to See: I‘m going to start by saying that this production was exactly what I wanted. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged London Theatre 1, Peter Yates, Plays to See, Richmond-on-Thames, Zoe Skipworth
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Brendan Bracken Exhibit Opens in Dublin
The Irish Times has published a brief biographical sketch of Brendan Bracken in conjunction with the opening tomorrow of an exhibit on his life at the Little Museum of Dublin. The article explains Bracken’s rackety early life and education and his close … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers
Tagged Brendan Bracken, Irish Times, Little Museum of Dublin
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“Scientific” List of Top 100 Novels Includes 3 by Waugh
The website “Trading Atoms” has made a comparison of six lists of Top 100 20th Century novels in an effort to come up with a more accurate (“scientific”) selection. The lists included those compiled both by widely based popularity polls … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop
Tagged Top 100 Novels, Trading Atoms
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Brideshead Reviewed in Richmond-on-Thames
The English Touring Theatre’s production of Brideshead Revisited opened its final run in Richmond-on-Thames earlier this week. Richmond is a suburb of London, and the major London papers reviewed the production after its April opening in York. At least two online … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged allinlondon.com, Caroline Harker, Independent Catholic News, Richmond-on-Thames, Surrey Comet, The Reviews Hub
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Another Literary Anniversary
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Graham Greene’s death in 1991. There have been several events associated with this anniversary. Perhaps the most ambitious is the BBC’s undertaking to adapt four of Greene’s novels for radio presentations. The most … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Conferences, Festivals, Radio, Radio Programs, Robbery Under Law
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Carlos Villar Flor, D.J.Taylor, Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, Roy Hattersley, The Tablet
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Waugh, Churchill and Maisky
The National Interest magazine, a U.S. bi-monthly espousing what is described as a realist view on foreign policy, has reviewed the diaries of Ivan Maisky, who was the Soviet ambassador in the U.K. at the beginning of WWII. The review … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Ivan Maisky, Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest
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Waugh Week in The Times
The Times (a London print newspaper) seems to have declared Waugh Week. On Saturday and Sunday (as noted previously) it published separate full length reviews by Paula Byrne and John Walsh, respectively, of Philip Eade’s new biography of Waugh. Today … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Benedict Nightingale, The Times
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Russian Literary Journal Marks Waugh Anniversary
The Russian literary journal Inostrannaia Literatura (Foreign Literature) has devoted about two-thirds of its April 2016 issue to a collection of essays and translations relating to Evelyn Waugh. This was issued on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death. The cover is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Articles, Interviews, Labels, Letters, Radio Programs
Tagged Inostrannaia literatura, Radio Svoboda, Russian translations
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