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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh Portrait Featured in Vogue Exhibit
The National Portrait Gallery in London is currently running an exhibit entitled Vogue 100: A Century of Style. Among the artifacts on show is a 1950 portrait of Evelyn Waugh by photographer Irving Penn. This is described in an arts … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Events, Letters, London, Portraits
Tagged Irving Penn, National Portrait Gallery, Vogue
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More Waugh Events Announced at West Country Festival
Additional Waugh-related events have been announced for the upcoming From Page to Screen festival in Bridport, Dorset. See earlier post. Most important, Charle Sturridge, festival curator and a director of the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisted, has invited Evelyn Waugh’s grandson, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Bridport Film Festival, Charles Sturridge, Claire Bloom, Dorset Echo
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Leftist Comic Again Names Waugh Favorite
Leftist comedian Alexei Sayle has again identfied Evelyn Waugh as his favorite writer. See earlier post from Glasgow Herald. This latest comment is in a webchat on the Guardian. Here’s the relevant Q&A: Q. Having read your short stories and … Continue reading
Waugh Characters Inspire Fabric Design
Interior designer Scot Meacham Wood has come up with a fabric design named for Sebastian Flyte from Brideshead Revisited. This is “Sebastian Tattersall.” Wood describes his inspiration on his website Tartanscot: I wanted a name that implied all the glories of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r
Tagged "Sebastian Tattersall", Fabric Design, Scot Meacham Wood
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Brideshead Recommended as Cure for Alcoholics
Daily Mail books columnist Daisy Goodwin has written an article recommending books to help cure or prevent alcoholism. Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is recommended for its warning about the evil effects of the disease on those other than the drinker: …for a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged alcoholism, Daily Mail, Daisy Goodwin
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Rex Mottram = Donald Trump?
Rex Mottram in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited has enjoyed something of a renaissance lately, as witnessed in several of our recent postings. George Weigel, writing in the National Review, may have hit upon the reason for this. He reminds people of Donald Trump. According … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Donald Trump, George Weigel, National Review, Rex Mottram
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Waugh at Chatsworth
The Yorkshire Post has a story about an exhibit at Chatsworth House of Cecil Beaton’s photographs. The photos themselves are mostly from Southebys but the subjects of these photos are visitors to Chatsworth. One of the photos is of Evelyn Waugh. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Photographs, Ronald Knox
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Chatsworth House, Daily Telegraph, Deborah Devonshire, New York Times
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Presentation Copy of Vile Bodies on Sale
Peter Harrington Books has listed a copy of the Vile Bodies first edition. This is a copy which Waugh presented to London chef Marcel Boulestin: First edition, presentation copy, eponymously inscribed on the front endpaper: “For Marcel Boulestin/ from / Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in First Editions, Items for Sale, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Marcel Boulestin, Peter Harrington Books, Randolph Churchill
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Brideshead on Aussie Reading List
An Australian newsblog The New Daily has included Brideshead Revisited on a list of “20 books you should have read by now:” Wartime British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote arguably his most-celebrated novel about Charles Ryder, an undergraduate at Oxford who befriends the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged The New Daily
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Evelyn Waugh and Confirmation Bias
The journalism website of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Storyboard, carries an article by Michael Fitzgerald that cites a brief episode of Scoop as an example of a phenomenon that should be avoided by future journalists. This is known as “confirmation bias:” There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged confirmation bias, journalism, Michael Fitzgerald, Nieman Foundation
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