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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
The Spectator at 10,000
The Spectator, always proud of its heritage as the oldest periodical in English, is now celebrating the publication of its 10,000th issue. As part of this, they commissioned a clerihew competition (“Two couplets, AABB, metrically clunky, laconic and humorous in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Arthur Jeffress, clerihews, The Spectator
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Roundup: Audrey Lucas and More
–Duncan Mclaren has added more information to his website concerning Waugh’s friendship with actress and writer Audrey Lucas. This takes the form of an imagined interview of Audrey by Nancy Mitford in advance of the now postponed Brideshead Festival at … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Express & Star (Wolverhampton), Penguin Books
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Waugh’s Journalism
The Literary Review in its latest newsletter has reposted Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s 1984 review of Donat Gallagher’s collection of Waugh’s journalism, Essays, Articles and Reviews. The publication of that collection and Wheatcroft’s review were contemporaneous with Martin Stannard’s Critical Heritage and … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Collections, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Donat Gallagher, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Literary Review
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Evelyn Waugh’s America
There are several articles this week that focus on Waugh’s trips to the USA in the late 1940s: –The most comprehesive is one by Roman Catholic publisher, educator and author Joshua Hren in the latest issue of the Jesuit journal, America … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged America magazine, Dorothy Day, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Mary Lygon Profiled
An article was recently posted on the website RoyalFoibles,com devoted to the life and, more particularly, the unhappy marriage of Waugh’s friend Mary Lygon. This is entitled “F****d Up Royal, or in this case Imperial, Marriages #49”. But don’t be … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged Mary Lygon, RoyalFoibles.com, Vsevolod Romanov
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Needing a Laugh? Another List
In a recent issue of The Times, their comedy critic Dominic Maxwell recommends a list of 10 books which he hopes will make readers laugh, as did he when he read them. Here’s the recommendation for one by Evelyn Waugh: … Continue reading
Slightly Foxed Podcast Posted: “The Ordeal of Evelyn Waugh”
The podcast produced by Slightly Foxed magazine mentioned in a previous post has now been posted. Here’s the link. Alexander Waugh and Selina Hastings are the guest panelists. A summary and cites to mentions of several works by and about … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Selina Hastings, Slightly Foxed
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New Volume of CWEW Announced: Helena, v. 11
The Oxford University Press has posted the next volume of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. This is his 1950 novel Helena which will appear as volume 11 in November. The OUP descripton is posted on their website. Here’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Items for Sale
Tagged Oxford University Press, Sara Haslam
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Book Clubs and Waugh
An article has been posted on the academic website TheConversation.com entitled “Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading.” This is by Nicola Wilson of the University of Reading. She explains the growth of book … Continue reading
Easter Roundup: Reading Waugh in a Time of Self-Isolation
–An article in National Review relates mainly to Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel in Italian The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). This is by M D Aeschliman who explains the popularity of the 700 page work among his University of Virginia students … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Sword of Honour
Tagged Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Independent, The Spectator, ThePublicDiscourse.com
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