Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh and the Charvet Shirt

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent issue of the New York Times style magazine, somewhat presumptuously called “T,” carries an article (“Not Just Any White Shirt”) describing shirts made by the Parisian fashion house Charvet. In his efforts to validate this company as the benchmark brand for men’s shirts, the author … Continue reading →

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Independent Includes Waugh Novel in Weekend Reads

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Independent newspaper has published a list of its top 23 recommendations for a book to be read conveniently in a single weekend. It has included Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in its selections. This seems odd, given that it is one of … Continue reading →

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Mrs Stitch on Parking Etiquette

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Lady magazine in a recent installment of its Guide to Modern Manners series offers advice to its readers on parking. The column opens with this example of Julia Stitch’s answer to the parking problem: Lady Diana Cooper, the grand socialite … Continue reading →

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Daily Telegraph Lists Brideshead as a Top ITV Production

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Telegraph last week marked the 60th anniversary of ITV by asking its critics to name their favorites among the network’s programs.  Granada TV’s 1981 production of Brideshead Revisited was ranked number 8: This sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh, Cigar Lover

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

USA Today recently ran a story about renewed interest in the cigar industry following restoration of relations between the U.S. and Cuba. The story looks forward to the day when Cuban cigars will again become routinely available to U.S. smokers. In an effort … Continue reading →

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Hetton Abbey Cited in Gilbert Scott Article

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Architectural historian and critic Gavin Stamp refers to Hetton Abbey in his recent Spectator review of a biography of George Gilbert Scott: Briefing his illustrator for the jacket of A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh asked for a country house in … Continue reading →

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Spectator Article Reprises the Perroquet

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In this week’s Spectator, Bruce Anderson calls up scenes from Black Mischief to describe the ideal nightclub. This is the Perroquet in Debra Dowa: I thought about Black Mischief while giving dinner to delightful young Alex in a more conventional club … Continue reading →

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Waugh Cited in Latest Cameron Dispute

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In today’s Guardian, there is a discussion of the allegations that David Cameron was a member of a secret Oxford club called the Piers Gaveston Society. It was founded in 1977 and named for Edward’s II’s lover. These stories have been … Continue reading →

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Two Recent Waugh Books in Literary Review

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A review of two recent books about Evelyn Waugh has become available on the internet, at least in part. The books are In the Picture by Donat Gallagher and Carlos Vilar Flor, both professors of English Literature, and Evelyn! A Rhapsody … Continue reading →

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Debut Novel Inspired By Brideshead

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Kate Scelsa, whose first novel has just been published, explains in yesterday’s Guardian how her book was inspired by Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. She was given the book by a college housemate but read it only several years later. As a … Continue reading →

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