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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh (more)
An earlier post here mentioned the publication of One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper. Standpoint magazine has now published a review of the volume, which it had earlier excerpted. In the review, Paul Johnson, friend (or at least acquaintance) of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles
Tagged Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Birkenhead, Paul Johnson
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David Bowie, Waugh Fan
A list of singer/songwriter David Bowie’s 100 favorite books includes Evelyn Waugh’s 1930 novel Vile Bodies. The list appears in an Independent newspaper article that was published in conjunction with the exhibition David Bowie is at the Victoria & Albert museum, which ran for several months … Continue reading
Posted in Sightings, Vile Bodies
Tagged David Bowie, George Orwell
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Waugh as a savior of Victorian heritage
In a new BBC Four series that started Sunday night, Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry, art historian and critic Jonathan Meades cites Evelyn Waugh as one of the leaders of the movement to preserve the Victorian heritage in art … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Television Programs
Tagged architecture, BBC, Brutalism, Jonathan Meades, Victorian Society
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Huntington Library acquires major Waugh collection
The Huntington Library in San Marino, California (12 miles west of Los Angeles) has announced the acquisition of a major collection of rare editions and manuscripts of Evelyn Waugh. The collection, consisting of some 250 books and 135 letters and … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, First Editions, Letters, Manuscripts, Ninety-Two Days, The Loved One
Tagged Anthony Powell, Diana Cooper, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Harry Ransom Center, Huntington Library, Loren and Frances Rothschild, Pope John XXIII
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Waugh’s last interviewer dies at 90
Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard died on January 2 in Suffolk. She was the last person to conduct a broadcast interview of Evelyn Waugh. This was for the BBC Monitor documentary series and was transmitted in February 1964. According to her … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Television, Television Programs
Tagged All Change, BBC, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Face to Face, Martin Amis, Monitor, Slipstream, The Cazalet Chonicles
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Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh
The current issue of Standpoint reprints a 1986 letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper in which he attempts to explain why he and Evelyn Waugh were not, to put it mildly, close chums. HTR (1914-2003) was an academic who first came to … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Letters, Sightings
Tagged Farm Street Church, Frank Pakenham, Graham Green, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Martin D'Arcy, New Statesman, Vatican II
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Brits in Hollywood
The long-awaited publication of Lisa Colletta’s British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965: Travelers, Exiles, and Expats took place last month in both the US and the UK. Professor Colletta presented a preliminary version of portions of the book relating to Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Miscellaneous, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Hollywood, Lisa Colletta, Waugh Centenary Conference
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The Culture Show: Writers in the Blitz
A recent episode of the BBC’s series The Culture Show (November 6, 2013), entitled Wars of the Heart, dealt with the experience of several writers during the Blitz. The presenter was James Runcie. The focus was on Graham Greene and … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Documentaries, London, Sightings, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Graham Greene, Henry Yorke, James Runcie, Lara Feigel, The Culture Show, The Love-Charm of Bombs, Wars of the Heart
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