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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Evelyn Waugh and Middle Age
In a recent column in The Independent, D.J. Taylor describes the evolution of the concept of middle age. He invokes the writings of Evelyn Waugh to illustrate the attitude toward middle age of those bright young people who were young adults in … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged D.J.Taylor, The Independent
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Evelyn Waugh’s Old Neighborhood
This week’s Observer ran an article about the recent transformation of the borough of Islington from the London home of New Labour’s founder Tony Blair to a district that now seems to be exemplified by a movement to revert the Labour Party to … Continue reading
Posted in Locations, London
Tagged Canonbury Square, George Orwell, Islington, Observer
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Evelyn=Basil and Audrey=Angela
Duncan McLaren, author of Evelyn! Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love, has given us the results of another of his ambitious research projects and much to think about. He follows the trajectory of the relationship between Waugh and Audrey Lucas, which … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Duncan McLaren
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Waugh Letter Read on Video by Geoffrey Palmer
Waugh’s 1942 letter to his wife recounting the Commando’s farcical attempt to remove a tree stump from the estate of an aristocrat near their training base in Scotland is read out to great humorous effect by TV actor Geoffrey Palmer. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Geoffrey Palmer, Letters Live
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Evelyn Waugh in Country Life
Country Life magazine has published a list of 60 things that make Britain great. No. 43 is the public school: Ever since William of Wykeham set up his college for poor scholars in Winchester more than 600 years ago, these … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall
Tagged Captain Grimes, Country Life, Mells Manor, Public Schools
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Spectator Competition
The Spectator‘s correspondent Lucy Vickery has set a competition for writing a short message in the style of one of four writers suggested by Michael Gove, Secretary of State, formerly for Education and now for Justice, as models for civil servants. … Continue reading
Express TV Critic Rewatches Brideshead
The 1980s TV series of Brideshead Revisited was recently rebroadcast by ITV Encore and is still available on an online “catch up” site which may require a subscription fee and UK internet connection. The Sunday Express TV critic, David Stephenson, chose … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs
Tagged David Stephenson, ITV Encore, John Mortimer, Sunday Express
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Waugh at the Ashes
Waugh gets quoted in the Guardian’s report of the opening ceremony of the Ashes Test Cricket Match in Cardiff. The reporter (Barney Ronay) is complaining about the lengthy opening ceremony which kicked off with a rain-sodden male-voice choir singing not one, not two … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall
Tagged Ashes Test Match, Cricket, Guardian, Wales
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Max and Diana
Many of our readers will be familiar with the story of how Waugh’s friend Diana Mosley (nee Mitford) and her husband Sir Oswald Mosley (leader of the British Fascist party) were imprisoned in 1940. Diana had, a few weeks before entering prison, given … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Letters, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Diana Mosley, Guardian, Max Mosley, The Spectator
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Waugh in Wonderland
In a recent New Yorker article, critic-at-large Anthony Lane, author of the essay on Waugh in the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), adds his own thoughts to the outpouring of words marking the bicentenary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anthony Lane, Lewis Carroll, New Yorker
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