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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Guy Fawkes Night Roundup
As we approach Guy Fawkes Night in the UK, here is a miscellaneous gathering of Evelyn Waugh news items: –A new book by Antonia Fraser may have some relevance to Guy Fawkes Night (at least in exploring the “aggressive” roots … Continue reading
Kelmscott Manor, Rossetti and Waugh
The following article was sent by Waugh Society member Milena Borden: Kelmscott Manor built around 1600 was the Cotswolds home of William Morris – writer, designer and craftsman – from 1871 until his death in 1896. It was also the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Complete Works, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Kelmscott Manor
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Officers Among the Islands
Duncan McLaren continues his visits to locations associated with what he calls Evelyn Waugh’s Piers Court years. The first of these is “An Arsonist’s Progress” which explores the evolution of what became Waugh’s story Love Among the Ruins. This began … Continue reading
Posted in Love Among The Ruins, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, The Holy Places, World War II
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Isle of Arran, Randolph Churchill
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Birthday Roundup
Today marks the 115th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth on 28 October 1903. Several newspapers have marked the occasion in their “this day in history” columns, including the Daily Mail. Other matters of note include: –Another article about last week’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Apollo Magazine, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, John Rothenstein, The Herald (Glasgow)
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A New Voice in Catholic America
The Catholic Herald has announced that it will soon begin publishing a weekly edition in the USA. In discussing this decision, William Cash, chairman of the Herald, takes the opportunity to consider the journal’s past accomplishments in the UK: Throughout … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged America. The Jesuir Review, Catholic Herald, Catholic novel
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Brexit, Cameron and Ivor Claire
Dominic Green, who recently wrote an essay about Waugh’s military career (see previous post), has now written a report about the march of 700,000 people in London last weekend demanding a “People’s Vote” on Brexit. The story appears in the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Brexit, David Pryce-Jones, Dominic Green, Spectator, Weekly Standard
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Waugh and the Buggers’ Baroque
The current TLS has a review of a book by Jane Stevenson entitled Baroque Between the Wars: Alternative style in the arts, 1918–1939. The reviewer Michael Hall seems to have enjoyed the book because of its period and subject matter … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged architecture (1930s), Campion Hall, Jane Stevenson, THE, TLS
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Literary Criticism Gets Reviewed
In the current issue of Commonweal magazine, novelist and critic William Giraldi is interviewed by the magazine’s book columnist Anthony Domestico. Giraldi’s collection of essays and criticism American Audacity was publshed earlier this year. After a wide- ranging discussion of … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Commonweal, Francoise Gilot, Literary Criticism, Literary Hub, New York Times, Pablo Picasso
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Roundup: Foreign Press
–In the German paper Die Welt, there is a short review of Brideshead Revisited (in German Wiedersehen mit Brideshead) by Denis Schenk. After quoting from the novel how Charles and Sebastian come to be acquainted, the article continues: There is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Diario Cordoba, Die Welt, Radio Spada, Spanish Civil War
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Paula Byrne to Lecture at the NPG
The Jane Austen’s House Museum has announced a lecture that may be of interest to our readers. This is the T Edward Carpenter Memorial Lecture: “Jane Austen and the English Comic Tradition” by Dr Paula Byrne at the National Portrait … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Autographs, Evelyn Waugh Society, Lectures, London
Tagged Jane Austen's House Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Paula Byrne
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