Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Festival: Two Interviews

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Victoria Barnsley, who is organizing this summer’s Brideshead Festival at Castle Howard, is interviewed about the event by two newspapers. David Behrens files the report of his interview in the Yorkshire Post. Here are some excerpts: …“I’d been thinking of … Continue reading →

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General Election Roundup

Posted on December 21, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh is cited recently in news reports relating to the Conservative Party’s victory in last week’s general election: –In the Sunday Times, Andrew Gimson, author of the book Boris, The Making of a Prime Minister, writes of Johnson’s ability to … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Slovenia

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s novel Scoop has recently been published in Slovenian, the language spoken in what was once the northernmost province of former Yugoslavia.  The translation is by Dušanka Zabukovec who also wrote an Introduction. The book is published by Cankarjeva založba, … Continue reading →

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TLS: Cities and Writers/Officers and Novelists

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A few weeks ago, the TLS published an article by novelist William Boyd (“Footless giant: A visit to Kafka’s Prague”) about his recent trip to that city. It opens with this: …it being Prague, my thoughts turn almost instantly to … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Festival (more)

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The organizers of this summer’s Brideshead Festival have released more details about the event. See previous post. These are contained in a press notice dated today from which the following is copied: To mark the 75th anniversary of the publication … Continue reading →

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Waugh in History

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Former Conservative MP and European Commissioner and now Life Peer Christopher Tugendhat has written a book called A History of Britain Through Books: 1900-1964. In his introduction, he explains that the book has “two wellsprings”. The first is his own … Continue reading →

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Adventide Roundup

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–There are two comments on similarities between the governmental missteps that lead to the release of a murderous jihadist terrorist and Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Conservative columnist Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph: The deaths inside and outside … Continue reading →

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La Prensa Article Marks Brideshead Anniversary

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa has published an article marking the 75th anniversary of the completion of Brideshead Revisited in 1944. This is entitled “Bajo el hechizo del recuerdo” (“Under the spell of remembrance”) and is written by Guillermo … Continue reading →

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Clive James (1939-2019) R. I. P.

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The critic and poet Clive James has died at the age of 80, after a long fight with cancer. He was born in Australia and moved to England in the early 1960s where he finished his education at Cambridge University. … Continue reading →

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Brideshead 75th Anniversary Festival Announced

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Castle Howard has announced the dates of its festival next summer to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited. This will be held at the Castle Howard estate in North Yorkshire from 26-28 June. Here is the … Continue reading →

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