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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
End-of-the-Month Roundup
–The Daily Telegraph is about to bring back its Way of the World column. This was a home of irreverent political satire from 1955 when it was started by Michael Wharton until 2008 when Craig Brown gave it up. In … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged BritBox, Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, Guardian, The Economist
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Autumnal Equinox Roundup
–The Sydney Morning Herald has posted an article by Tony Wright entitled: “In memory of cleft sticks and the frustrations of sending a story.” It opens with this: There were times in strange places when I longed for a cleft … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged New Criterion, New Republic, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, University of Dayton
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“Brideshead Regained” Again
The Italian religious webpage Radio Spada has posted a review of the 2003 “sequel” to Brideshead Revisited. This somewhat misbegotten volume was written by Michael Johnston as an intended celebration of Waugh’s centenary. As explained in the article, the book … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Brideshead Regained, Michael Johnston, Radio Spada
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Campion Hall Lecture on YouTube
Prof. Gerard Kilroy’s 9 September 2021 lecture on “Edmund Campion and Waugh’s Household of the Faith”at Campion Hall, Oxford is available on YouTube at this link. The illustrated lecture was presented at Campion Hall, Oxford before a live audience and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion
Tagged YouTube
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Labo(u)r Day Roundup
–The Catholic Herald has an article by Ken Craycraft in which he reviews the recent biography of Graham Greene (The Unquiet Englishman by Richard Greene). Here is an excerpt: Critics and biographers are always looking for glimpses of Greene’s own … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Wales
Tagged Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Tatler, The Times
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Smoke Signals from Waugh
Duncan McLaren has posted a lavishly illustrated photographic essay showing Waugh posing with pipe and cigar. Here’s a link. The pipe smoking photos seem to be post Oxford in the 1920s and the cigar smoking, post war. This leaves a … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Photographs
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Havana cigars
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A Little More Learning
Sophia Waugh, Evelyn’s grand daughter and Auberon’s daughter, writes this week in the Catholic Herald about the current state of Roman Catholic schools in the UK. The article opens with a brief review of the differing attitudes of various members … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Catholic Herald, education
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Roundup: Sash Windows and Sitwells
–Eleanor Doughty writing in Country Life considers whether sash windows should be repaired or replaced. She opens the story with this: There is something about a sash window, isn’t there? The gentle squeak and heave as you lift it up, … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Catholicism, Combe Florey, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Charile Watts, Country Life, San Diego Union Tribune, Sitwell Family, The Economist, The Oldie
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Adaptations Abound
–In a recent issue of The Spectator, Chilton Williamson, Jr considers the success of the 1950s Perry Mason CBS TV series in light of today’s alternatives. Here’s the opening of the article: I was well into my thirties when my … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One
Tagged Alexander Larman, Castle Howard, Chilton Williamson Jr, Perry Mason, The Critic, The Spectator
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