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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Telegraph Publishes Remembrance of Waugh
In today’s Sunday Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare writes a remembrance of Waugh. Shakespeare never apparently met Waugh personally but wrote and directed the three-part 198os BBC Arena documentary of Waugh. He is also editor of the Everyman edition of Waugh’s collected travel … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Interviews, Lancing, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Arena, Dudley Carew, Graham Greene, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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Evelyn Waugh R.I.P.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, writer, born October 28, 1903, died 50 years ago today on Easter Day 1966 in Combe Florey, Somerset. Requiescat in pace.
Posted in Anniversaries
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Waugh and Baby
The Daily Mail has printed the second and final installment of excerpts from Philip Eade’s new biography of Waugh to be published in July. Having devoted the first installment to his homosexual affairs at Oxford in the 1920s, this article tells … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, Letters, Pixton
Tagged Daily Mail, Philip Eade, Teresa Jungman
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Performance Poem Inspired by Waugh Novel
Performance poet Luke Wright recently appeared at Selby Town Hall where he read his poem What I Learned from Johnny Bevan. As reported in the York Press, this was a one- hour performance of the poem which tells a politically charged … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Theater
Tagged Luke Wright, performance poem, What I Learned from Johnny Bevan
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Survey of Waugh
The Catholic World Report has posted an article surveying Evelyn Waugh’s works from a Roman Catholic perspective. This is by Prof. Adam A.J. DeVille, St. Francis University, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and is written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Catholicism, Robbery Under Law
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Harry Mount on Brideshead Revisited
The Catholic Herald has marked the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death with a feature article by journalist and author Harry Mount on Brideshead Revisited. Mount begins with an assessment of the novel: Fifty years after his death on April … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Scoop, Television
Tagged Catholic Herald, Harry mount, Pansy Lamb
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Free Thinking about Evelyn Waugh
BBC Radio 3 yesterday broadcast a panel discussion in its Free Thinking series about the life and works of Evelyn Waugh. As previously announced, the panel was moderated by Matthew Sweet and consisted of Alexander Waugh, the writer’s grandson, Adam … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Radio Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Theater
Tagged Adam Mars-Jones, Alexander Waugh, BBC Radio 3, Bryony Lavery, Free Thinking, Matthew Sweet, Philip Eade
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Waugh’s Eton Envy
Commonweal magazine in its current issue has a review of Adam Sisman’s biography of novelist John le Carre. The review is by Jeffrey Meyers who has also written biographies of several literary figures. Waugh features in the review in connection with le … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Ronald Knox
Tagged Anthony Powell, Commonweal, David Cameron, Eton College, Guardian, John le Carre, Justin Welby
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