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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Cousin Jasper Cited in Cambridge Varsity
The Cambridge University student paper, Varsity, has cited Jasper Ryder’s advice to his cousin Charles on how to succeed at Oxford: “You want either a first or a fourth. There is no value in anything between. Time spent on a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall
Tagged architecture, Cambridge University, City Journal, Jasper Ryder, Otto Silenus, Oxford University, Varsity
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Two Waugh Letters on Offer
Two Evelyn Waugh letters will be offered for sale at a Bonhams auction to be held on 18 March. One, to Stella Morrah, expresses regret that she will be unable, due to illness, to accompany him to a dance that evening. … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Graham Greene, Stella Morrah
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Lodge Memoirs (more)
In this week’s New Statesman, journalist and academic John Mullan reviews the memoirs of David Lodge (see earlier post) and Antonia Fraser (My History: A Memoir of Growing Up). He sees the two writers as a contrast between “prole” and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Sightings
Tagged Antonia Fraser, David Lodge, John Mullan, New Statesman
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Waugh on Greene
In a Guardian column earlier this week, Robert McCrum cites Evelyn Waugh in support of his somewhat eccentric choice of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as one of the 100 greatest novels in English. McCrum admits Greene has … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Scoop
Tagged Graham Greene, Guardian, Robert McCrum, The End of the Affair
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Brideshead Tops Telegraph’s List of TV Book Adaptations
On the occasion of the BBC’s broadcast of its adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels (taking its title from the first, Wolf Hall), the Daily Telegraph published its list of what it considers the top 20 TV adaptations of all … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Granada TV
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David Lodge Interviewed on BBC Radio 4
On today’s episode of the BBC Radio 4 program Open Book, Mariella Frostrup interviews the Evelyn Waugh Society’s Honorary President, David Lodge, about his recently published memoir. Among the topics they discuss is Lodge’s status as a Roman Catholic writer. … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh Society, Interviews, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4, David Lodge, Mariella Frostrup, Open Book
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Guy Crouchback’s Religion Featured in Article
The online edition of First Things, a Roman Catholic journal on religion and public life, has published an article, Catholicism Before and After 1963: Two Novels, by Gerald Russello in which he contrasts the impact of religion on the character … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged First Things, Gerald Russello, Monk Dawson, Piers Paul Read
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Memoir of EWS’s Honorary President Published
David Lodge, the Society’s Honorary President, has written the first volume of his memoirs. This was published in the UK this week under the title Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-1975. An international edition is promised … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh Society, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Robbery Under Law, Television Programs
Tagged D.J.Taylor, David Lodge, Financial Times, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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London Papers Report Burning of “Scoop” Hotel in Addis Abba
The London papers today reported that a hotel in Addis Abba described in Waugh’s writings was badly damaged in a fire. See Daily Mail (“Fire guts Ethiopian hotel made famous by ‘Scoop’”). Similar stories appeared in the Daily Telegraph and … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Abba, Hotel Itegue Taitu, William Deedes
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Publication of Book on Waugh and Merton Announced
A book by Canadian author and educator Mary Frances Coady on the friendship of Evelyn Waugh and U.S. theologian Thomas Merton has been announced. Entitled Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain, it will … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism
Tagged Mary Frances Coady, Thomas Merton
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