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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh Cameo in BBC Series on Tatler Magazine
BBC has started a series of three programs on Tatler magazine: Posh People: Inside Tatler. In the first episode (Monday, 24 November) Matthew Bell, newly appointed Commissioning Editor, is among those interviewed. He was formerly the society diarist for the Independent … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Television Programs
Tagged BBC 2, Bullingdon Club, Hertford College, Matthew Bell, Tatler Magazine
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Guardian Adds Scoop to Top 100 Novels List
Robert McCrum, novelist and literary journalist, has for several months been writing a weekly Guardian column naming and discussing what he considers the 100 best novels in English. He is working through the history of English novel year by year … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Robert McCrum, Scoop
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Editor of Waugh’s Letters Retires from The Spectator
Mark Amory, who edited the pioneering volume of Evelyn Waugh’s letters that appeared in 1980, has recently announced his retirement as Literary Editor of The Spectator. He went to work there in “about 1985.” In his valedictory article announcing his … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Jeremy Clarke, Mark Amory, The Spectator
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Scoop Included in Daily Telegraph Top 100
Last month the Daily Telegraph published a list of the 100 novels everyone should read. This includes translations as well as books in English. There is no explanation of how or by whom the list was compiled or whether the books … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph
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Memoir of Lord Berners’ Menage is Published
A memoir of the residents of Lord Berners’ Faringdon House estate in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) has been written by the granddaughter of one (or possibly two) of them. This is The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me , … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Miscellaneous
Tagged Literary Review, Lord Berners, Robert Heber-Percy, Sofka Zinovieff
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Last Mitford Sister Dies at 94
Deborah Cavendish (nee Freeman-Mitford), Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, died earlier this week at the age of 94. Evelyn Waugh and she were friends, though she was not nearly as close to him as were her older sisters Nancy and Diana. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous, Ronald Knox
Tagged Chatsworth, Deborah Mitford, Mitford Sisters
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Daily Mail Reports Sale of Waugh’s Favorite Writing Venue
The Daily Mail online edition for 16 September reports the offer for sale of the Easton Court Hotel in Chagford, Devon. This is the place to which Evelyn Waugh retreated to do much of his writing, including that for his … Continue reading
Posted in Locations
Tagged Daily Mail, Easton Court Hotel, Jenny Awford
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Waugh and Spanish Civil War
Waugh’s views on the Spanish Civil War recently came up for comment in the TLS. In his review (July 4) of a recent book about war correspondents in Spain, Hotel Florida by Amanda Vaill, Jeremy Treglown commented that it was … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous
Tagged Spanish Civil War, TLS, War Correspondents
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