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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Acedemic Roundup: Spring 2020
–The journal The University Scholar published by the University of Dallas, has included an essay on Waugh in its Fall 2019 issue (v. XX, No. 1, p. 48). This is entitled “An Animalistic Death Cult: Materialism and Religiosity in Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Academic Journals
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Evelyn Waugh, d. 10 April 1966, R.I.P.
Today is the 54th anniversary of the death of Evelyn Waugh. His death occurred on what was Easter Sunday, and he had attended Mass earlier in the day. He died after returning to his home in Combe Florey and is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey
Tagged Good Friday, St Thomas Aquinas College
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Mexico Revisited: Waugh, Greene and Theroux
Travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux recently published a travel book about an automobile trip to Mexico. This is entitled On the Plain of Snakes and is reviewed in the digital academic magazine PublicBooks.org by Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, professor of Latin American … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Graham Greene, Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, Mexico, Paul Theroux, PublicBooks.org
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Pre-Easter Roundup
–Roger Lewis has posted another reading list for the current epidemic. This is in the Daily Mail and is entitled “Keep laughing and read on.” Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop is among those recommended: William Boot, who contributes nature columns on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Australian Financial News, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Guardian, L'Officiel, Ralph Lauren, Southern Utah University, TLS
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Waugh and the Marquesses of Bath
The 7th Marquess of Bath (1932-2020) died last Saturday. His name was Alexander Thynn, and he was the son of parents, both of whom were friends of Evelyn Waugh dating back to his Oxford and Bright Young People days. The … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daphne Fielding, Marquess of Bath
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Henry Yorke and Evelyn Waugh
Waugh’s friend from Oxford Henry Yorke (who wrote as “Henry Green”) has joined his other friends on the growing list appearing on Duncan McLaren’s website. This latest entry is in the form of a narrative of the relations between Yorke … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Henry Yorke
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A Handful of Dust on BBC Radio 4
The BBC will rebroadcast a 1996 two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. According to the Daily Mail Weekend Magazine radio listings: The critics gave the thumbs down to this Evelyn Waugh novel when it was published … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, National Review
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Waugh Podcasts
The quarterly literary magazine Slightly Foxed has announced that its next podcast will be devoted to Evelyn Waugh. This will be posted on their website, probably on 15 April. Details such as topics, participants, time, etc. do not seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Aubrey Beardsley, BBC, Daily Mail, Slightly Foxed
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Joseph Crowley (1926-2020) R.I.P.
Joseph Crowley, Waugh’s friend and correspondent in the 1950s, died last month in Washington. Joe first encountered Waugh while an undergraduate at the University of Detroit in 1949. He crossed over to Windsor, Ontario, to hear Waugh lecture at Assumption … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Letters, Officers and Gentlemen, The Loved One
Tagged Joseph Crowley
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The Brideshead Effect
In an article primarily devoted to the new Julian Fellowes dramatic series Belgravia that started a few weeks ago on ITV, The Herald (Scotland) also considers the effect successful costume dramas may have beyond the world of entertainment. As its … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Adamah Media, Cherwell, Coutts, Gentleman's Journal, Harper's Bazaar, InsideHook.com, The Herald (Scotland), Vogue, Winnipeg Free Press
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