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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Unfaithful Wives in the Guardian
Novelist Piers Paul Read has compiled a list of the Top 10 Novels About Unfaithful Wives earlier this week in the Guardian. Among those named are Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. It seemed odd that there was nothing by … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour
Tagged Guardian, Piers Paul Read, Unfaithful Wives
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Waugh on Writing x 3
Waugh scores a hat trick in today’s press with three stories citing him on the art of writing. In the Daily Express, Waugh appears in a review of the BBC’s ongoing series based on John Lanchester’s 2012 novel Capital. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Interviews, Television
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Harvard Crimson
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Fitzroy Maclean Commemorated on St. Andrew’s Day
Fitzroy Maclean, Waugh’s commanding officer in Yugoslavia, was commemorated yesterday in an editorial on the Foreign and Colonial Office weblog. The occasion was St. Andrew’s Day. Maclean was, needless to say, Scottish. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘A man of daring … Continue reading
Posted in Helena, Letters, World War II
Tagged Fitzroy Maclean, Foreign and Colonial Office
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Waugh in Round Britain Quiz
A Waugh novel was part of a question in a recent Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. The teams were Scotland and Wales and this question was put to the Scotland team: Q8 (from Stephen Gore) In which apparently unproductive source … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged BBC, Round Britain Quiz. The Waste Land
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Waugh in the Belton House Library
A poem entitled “Belton Park” by writer William Bedford has been posted on The Poetry Shed where he is named a Featured Poet. A c.v. and list of his publications can be seen here. The poem was written in memory of Walter Bedford who is … Continue reading
Posted in Edmund Campion, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Belton House, Peregrine Brownlow, William Bedford
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Waugh in the LARB
The Los Angeles Review of Books contains references to Waugh in two of this months’ issues. The first is in a review of a book entitled Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, by David Ulin, a transplanted New Yorker, … Continue reading
Posted in Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Clive James, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Review of Books
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Waugh on Party Dresses
The Daily Telegraph has run an article by its Fashion Features Director containing advice on the choice of the appropriate party dress for various occasions during the upcoming holiday season. One bit of guidance offered is that by Evelyn Waugh: ‘Her clothes … Continue reading
Waugh’s Neoligisms
Novelist and critic D.J. Taylor contributed a column on neologisms to the Independent newspaper earlier this month. This was inspired by the release of the Collins dictionary’s latest list of the top new words for this year. These included “Corbynomics”, “dadbod” … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Vile Bodies
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Independent newspaper, neologisms
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Carly Simon, Brideshead Fan
The Daily Mail has published a review of the memoirs of singer-songwriter Carly Simon, Boys in the Trees. The article, by Tom Leonard, mentions how her life was affected by the 1980s Granada TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Carly Simon, Daily Mail
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Waugh Out of Context
Writer Joseph Epstein in the latest issue of Commentary magazine reviews Richard Bradford’s book Literary Rivals. The article entitled, “‘You Stink’, He Explained”, opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Humility is not a virtue propitious to the artist. It is often … Continue reading →