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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
80th Anniversary of Robbery Under Law
This year marks the 80th anniversary of EvelynWaugh’s book, Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object Lesson. This was published in the UK in June 1939 and an American edition followed in September under the title Mexico: An Object Lesson. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Robbery Under Law, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Mexico, Selina Hastings
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Iris Murdoch Centenary Marked This Week
This week is the 100th anniversary of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch’s birth in 1919. It will be marked by a Centenary Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford this weekend (13-15 July). A later conference is scheduled on 10-11 October at the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Iris Murdoch Centenary, TLS
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4th of July Weekend Roundup
–America: The Jesuit Review has reposted on its website a 2013 essay about Waugh written by Jon M Sweeney. The essay was a response to the re-issuance of all of his fiction in the USA by Little, Brown and all … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Newspapers, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Television
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Catch-22, Evening Standard, Los Angeles Times, The Oldie, University of Birmingham, Vita and Virginia
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Spring Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Published
The latest issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies (No. 50.1, Spring 2019) has been distributed. The contents are noted below. A copy may be accessed here. ARTICLES “Huxley’s Ape”: Waugh in Scandinavia (August-September 1947), by Jeffrey Manley Between his first two trips to … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newsletter, World War II
Tagged Inez Holden, Lara Feigel, Scandinavia
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Wavian Wine Writing
The Catholic Herald has a review of Auberon Waugh’s 1986 book Waugh on Wine which has been reprinted by Quartet Books. The review is by David Platzer who writes: Waugh reveals in his introduction that it was Tina Brown, his … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Forbes magazine, Wine
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End-of-the-Month Roundup
–Today’s New York Times has an article about people who choose to have portraits of their houses painted rather than photographed: While landscape portraiture became a common endeavor for artists centuries ago, homes were rarely the principal subjects of the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Portraits, Scoop, World War II
Tagged Aleteia.org, John Verney, Michael Parkinson, New Criterion, New York Times, Times newspaper
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BBC to Repeat Commando Documentary
BBC Four TV will tonight rebroadcast the 2012 documentary about the Commando training base at Achnacarry, Scotland. This is entitled “Castle Commando” and will be broadcast at 2200p BST. Waugh’s 1943 assignment to that training base contributed to his decision … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC4, Castle Commando
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OED Declares “Brideshead” an Adjective
In its June 2019 list of new words the Oxford English Dictionary declares “Brideshead” to be an adjective independent of Waugh’s novel. Here’s their entry and usage examples for the new word: Reminiscent of the style, characters, plot, etc., of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged New Words, Oxford English Dictionary
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