Category Archives: Anniversaries

Evelyn Waugh’s Birthday 28 October 2003

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Today is the 114th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birthday. This has been announced in several news sites that track this sort of thing. Perhaps not coincidently, the Guardian has chosen this date to report that Waugh’s grandson, Alexander, will announce … Continue reading →

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The Fruit of Whispering Glades

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The TLS has published an article marking the centenary of the birth of Jessica Mitford, sister of Waugh’s friends Nancy, Diana and Deborah. The story (“Happy 100th Birthday, Decca”) is by Mark McGinness who has also recently written about Waugh … Continue reading →

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Waugh in the Food Columns

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Lisa Hilton, biographer, novelist and now food critic for Standpoint magazine, was apparently assigned to write a review of a new Italian restaurant in Covent Garden called Margot. This establishment was downgraded by some other food critics such as Jay … Continue reading →

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Alec Waugh Remembered

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The current issue of The Oldie has a memoir by Alexander Waugh of his Uncle Alec. He was known in the family as “Uncle Sex” and the memoir is written on the 100th anniversary of the publication of his novel … Continue reading →

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Martin D’Arcy and Alec Waugh Archives Described

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

There are recent postings relating to the UK archives holding the papers of Fr Martin D’Arcy and Alec Waugh. Fr D’Arcy’s archives are discussed in an article on the Jesuits in Britain website: The collection contains letters from over 700 different … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Country Houses

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

There have been several recent articles that mention Evelyn Waugh in connection with English country houses: Carlton Towers. As noted in a recent post, this house was the setting of Hetton Abbey in the 1980s film version of A Handful of … Continue reading →

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NR Marks 10th Anniversary of Latin Mass Revival

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

An article in the National Review cites today (7 July 2017) as the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict’s action to revive the Latin Mass. This was an action that had been sought by the founder of the National Review, William … Continue reading →

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Arnold Bennett Anniversary Remembered

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The South China Morning Post has marked the 150th anniversary of novelist and critic Arnold Bennett’s birth. This appears in the paper’s travel column by Adam Nebbs which seems odd until he explains that Bennett wrote two books that took place in London’s … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter, Brideshead Revisited and Jeremy Corbin

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The London papers are full of comments this week marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. In The Spectator, associate editor Toby Young looks at the political and cultural influences that contributed to J … Continue reading →

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Commonweal Marks J F Powers Centenary

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Roman Catholic literary magazine Commonweal has marked the centenary of novelist J F Powers birth with an article on Powers’ career entitled “His Bleak Materials” by biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers. The article begins with Meyers’ memoir of a 1981 … Continue reading →

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