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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Vile Bodies Artifact Posted on Etsy
A theatre programme from the 1932 London stage production of Vile Bodies was recently posted for sale on etsy.com. Here’s the description: This is a very rare survivor – and indeed so much so that I am unable to find … Continue reading
Unloved in LA
William Cash has written a feature length article in the Catholic Herald that provides some new insights into Evelyn Waugh’s 1947 trip to Hollywood. The trip combined an effort to agree film rights with MGM for Brideshead Revisited as well … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic Herald, MGM Studios, William Cash
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MLK Weekend Roundup
—The Tablet has posted an excerpt from Waugh’s novel Helena in recognition of both the Christmas season and the recent publication of that novel as the latest addition (vol. 11) to the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the introduction … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Copyright Law, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Oldie, The Tablet, William Carey University
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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy (More)
Luca Fumagalli has completed his review of Sword of Honour with two installments in subsequent postings on Radio Spada. See previous post for volume 1. The review and summary of second volume Officers and Gentlemen (Ufficiale e Gentiluomini in Italian) … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada, translations
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Another Brideshead Anniversary
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited in America in book format. A serialized version had been issued in four installments in November 1944-February 1945 in Town & Country magazine published in New York. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions
Tagged Book of the Month Club, Little Brown & Co
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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy
The Italian language religious newspaper Radio Spada has started what will apparently be a multi-article review of Waugh’s war trilogy. This is written by Luca Fumagalli who has written previously in Italian on Waugh’s work. See previous posts. An edited … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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Year’s End Roundup
–Writing in The Critic, Clive Aslet discusses the decision of the Tate Gallery to close its restaurant in response to its designation as “racist” conferred on the mural of Rex Whistler, which decorates its restaurant. See earlier post. Aslet puts … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Labels, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Alan Bennett's Diary, Armenians, Catholic World Report, Keghart.org, London Review of Books, Penguin Classics, The Critic, The Times
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Britain’s Favorite Novel on C5
The UK’s Channel 5 yesterday broadcast a program called Britain’s Favorite Novel. Only novels by British writers were considered. The selection was based on what they described as a poll of C5’s viewers. Since I would not be included in … Continue reading
Posted in Television Programs
Tagged Britain's Favorite Books, Channel 5
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Waugh’s Christmas 1945
Here is Waugh’s diary entry for his Christmas 75 years ago–Wednesday 26 December 1945: Maria Teresa and Bron have arrived, he ingratiating, she covered with little meddals and badges, neurotically voluble with the vocabulary of the lower-middle class–‘serviette’, ‘spare room’. … Continue reading
Profile in Hatred: Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron
Biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers has written a biographical profile of travel writer Robert Byron, with particular reference to the mutual hate – love – hate relationship between Byron and Evelyn Waugh. This appears in the online journal The … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Byron, The Article
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