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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Cyril in Fiction: Roundup
–In his latest posting, Duncan Mclaren discusses yet another of Waugh’s friends. This time it is Cyril Connolly’s turn. McLaren looks at Cyril’s appearances in several of Waugh’s novels, at first obliquely as a name assigned to an unrelated character … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Tourist in Africa, Evelyn Waugh Studies, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Nell Zink, New York Review of Books, Tatler, TV Guide
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Brideshead Webinar (More)
The following additional information has been received from Castle Howard about the 28 May 2020 webinar: The webinar will celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Brideshead, by exploring Castle Howard’s relationship with Waugh’s classic novel. Our Curator … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Events
Tagged Castle Howard, Webinar
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Monsignor Rittig Revisited
The Zagreb newspaper Večernji list has published an interview of the writer and religion scholar Margareta Matijevic who has recently written a book about the Yugoslav priest and politician Svetozar Rittig. From what I can gather from the computerized translation … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Croatia, Svetozar Rittig, Večernji List, Yugoslavia
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BBC to Rebroadcast Brideshead Radio Series
BBC has announced their rebroadcast of the radio version of Brideshead Revisited. This is in the adaptation by Jeremy Front and will appear over four episodes beginning next Monday, 25 May at 1000a on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Each episode … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Radio, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, Jeremy Front
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Waugh in Iberia
The Lisbon paper Diario de Noticias has begun the publication of a long article by Antonio Arauja entitled “Uma educação sentimental”. The paper is published weekly and the story’s first installment was printed in last week’s edition. It is essentially … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Antonio Arauja, Diario de Noticias, La Opinion de Malaga, Lisbon, Seville
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David Pryce-Jones’s Signed Books
Literary critic and historian David Pryce-Jones has written another memoir. This one is called Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime and consists of 90 memoirs of the authors of books in his collection which contain their signatures. In each case … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Cyril Connolly, David Pryce-Jones, Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh’s Selfie
In a recent post we mentioned Evelyn Waugh’s appearance in a response to Spectator competition #3148-Selfie. This was set by Lucy Vickery in the 10,000th edition of the magazine: ‘Some famous painters are thought to have slipped small self-portraits into … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged J C H Mounsey, Spectator Competition 3148
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Brideshead Webinar Scheduled for 28 May
Castle Howard has announced a webinar to be conducted via Twitter on Thursday, 28 May. Here’s the text of the announcement: The 28th May will mark the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Brideshead Revisited. Our Curator will run a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Events
Tagged Castle Howard, Chris Ridgway, Webinar
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Stephen Tennant: Underachieving Novelist
The publicity surrounding the shuttered Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (see earlier posts) has apparently stirred up interest in Beaton’s friend and sometime collaborator Stephen Tennant. The Paris Review has posted an article reviewing Tennant’s career, with … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, Photographs, Portraits
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, The Spectator
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