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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Guardian Announces Reopening of Scoop Venue
A recent Guardian article about Ethiopian jazz includes the announcement that the Taitu Hotel in Addis Ababa, described by Waugh in his writings as the favored venue of the press corps and damaged by fire last year, will reopen later this year: A … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Guardian, Taitu Hotel
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Writer Follows Waugh’s Career Advice
Lisa Hilton, who has just just written a new novel, is interviewed in today’s Belfast Telegraph. The book is entitled Maestra and is described an erotic thriller: It tells the story of Judith, a working-class young beauty trying to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Belfast Telegraph, first novels, Lisa Hilton, Rossetti: His Life and Works
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Waugh and Arboretums
Today’s Financial Times has a feature length article about John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), the inventor of the arboretum. The first of this new type of garden was planted in Derby in 1840 and inspired similar designs in the U.S. at New … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged arboretums, Financial Times, John Claudius Loudon
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Brideshead and Yorkshire in the News
Several photos from the rehearsals of the stage production of Brideshead Revisited have been posted on What’s On Stage. The photos include members of the cast, indentifying their parts, as well as of the director, Damian Cruden, and playwright, Bryony … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Christopher Sykes, The Books that Changed my Life, Theatre Royal York, Victoria "Plum" Sykes
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Exhibition of Waugh Film Memorabilia at Bridport
The Dorset Echo carries a story about a newly announced feature of the Bridport From Page to Screen film festival this weekend. See previous posts. This will relate to: …Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One on Sunday 3rd. His grandson Alexander … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
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Saga Louts and BYPs
This week’s Spectator reports on the growing problem arising from the increase in the population of “Saga louts.” These are people in their 50-60s who have refused to grow up. They can frequently be observed misbehaving in pubs from which … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Humo(u)r, Uncategorized
Tagged baby boomers, Bright Young People, Saga louts, Spectator, William Cook
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More News on Waugh Graves
The Times newspaper today carries a story by David Sanderson about the problem arising from the siting of the Waugh family graves. As noted in a previous post, the graves are situated in a ha-ha which stands between Waugh’s former house and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Combe Florey, Newspapers
Tagged Bishop of Bath and Wells, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Combe Florey, Septimus Waugh, Taunton Council, Times newspaper, Waugh family gravesites
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BBC to Mark Waugh Anniversary
BBC Radio 3 has announced a broadcast next week to mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death on Easter Day in 1966 . This will be a 45 minute episode of their programme Free Thinking. Here are the details: Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged Adam Mars-Jones, BBC Radio 3, Bryony Lavery, Free Thinking
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Helena on List of Recommended Historical Novels
A bookblog (mirabile dictu) has published its list of the 10 best literary and pop novels set in the ancient world. Waugh’s Helena makes the list at No. 6: Evelyn Waugh’s Helena (1950). Said to be the favorite of his books, … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Helena
Tagged Historical Novels, Terry Teachout
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Evelyn Waugh and European Philosophy
In an essay about Jurgen Habermas, described as “Europe’s most influential philosopher,” Prof. Daniel N. Robinson is reminded of when the British writer, Evelyn Waugh, was received into the Roman Catholic Church in the Fall of 1930. It caused quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Dr. Daniel N. Robinson, European Philosophy, Jurgen Habermas, To the Source
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