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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Early September Roundup
There is a diverse field of material covered in this latest roundup gathered from the last two weeks: —Quadrant Magazine, an Australian cultural journal, carries on its website a droll pleading (tongue lodged in cheek) from Tony Thomas that Decline … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Boa Vista, ChinaRhyming.com, David Lull, Lin Yutang, Quadrant, The New Criterion, The Scotsman, Vdare.com, Wales
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Waugh, The Royal Academy and Charles Spencelayh
Duncan McLaren has posted a new article on his website addressing Evelyn Waugh’s admiration of the works of the painter Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958). The paintings of Spencelayh were regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, and the artist was an active … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, The Loved One
Tagged Charles Spencelayh, Duncan McLaren, The Royal Academy
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Folio Society Issues New Brideshead Edition
The Folio Society has issued a new illustrated edition of Brideshead Revisited in its Autumn collection. This is a 344-page hardback book in a slipcase, with an introduction by novelist and critic A N Wilson. According to the Society’s online … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale
Tagged A N Wilson, The Folio Society
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Labor Day Roundup
Spy writer Ben Macintyre was recently interviewed by the New York Times. To the question which book by another author do you wish you had written, he answered: I would love to have written “Scoop,” by Evelyn Waugh, that vicious … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Chronicles, Guardian, New York Times, Standpoint, Surf Europe, Sydney Morning Herald
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BBC Radio 4 to Rebroadcast Four-Part Brideshead
The four-part dramatization of Brideshead Revisited will be rebroadcast starting next Monday, 4 September on BBC Radio 4 Extra. This is based on the adaptation of Jeremy Front first transmitted in 2007. It had been repeated several times since then, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Radio
Tagged BBC Radio 4
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Roundup: Hat Trick in The Spectator
There is a diverse assortment of cites to Waugh’s works this week, with The Spectator scoring a hat trick in its various editions: —The Spectator has a review of a new book that attacks “modernist” architecture. The book is entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged ANZ LitLover, Catholic Herald, Chippendale, Modernist Architecture, Public Schools, The Spectator
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Times Story on Wartime Antisemitism in Britain is Released
We reported about a week ago that a Times story dated 16 August was withdrawn after publication. See earlier post. This has now apparently been republished with the dateline 23 August under the title “How Antisemitism in Britain is Rooted … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Antisemitism, Duff Cooper, Ministry of Information, The Times
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TLS Reviews Early CWEW Volumes
In the latest issue of TLS, Paula Byrne reviews the first five volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. These were published over several months late last year and early this. Byrne is the author, inter alia, of what … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martin Stannard, Paula Byrne, TLS
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Waugh’s University Challenge
This week’s University Challenge quiz on the BBC featured Clare College, Cambridge against Hertford College, Oxford. In his introductory remarks. presenter Jeremy Paxman mentioned among Hertford’s best known alumni John Donne, Jonathan Swift and Evelyn Waugh. He went on to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Hertford College, University Challenge
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Waugh in Japan
ProQuest has published another link on the internet to an academic study relating to Evelyn Waugh. This is an article by the late John Howard Wilson entitled “The Origins of Japanese Interest in Evelyn Waugh 1948-1963” and was published in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Evelyn Waugh Studies
Tagged A D Peters Collection, Japanese translations, John Howard Wilson, Marcel Decoste, Naomi Milthorpe, Papers on Language and Literature, Yoshiharu Usui
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