Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited

BBC Rebroadcasts Brideshead Radio Adaptation

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 Extra will rebroadcast the 4-episode series of Brideshead Revisited starting tomorrow (Tuesday, 4 October) at 10am. Each episode is 1 hour, and they will be broadcast on successive days at the same time each day until the … Continue reading →

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Waugh Character Models Surface in Blogs

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Two of Waugh’s character models have surfaced in recent blogs. These are Brenda Dean Paul and Kate Meyrick. Dean Paul may have contributed to any number of characters in Vile Bodies. She was perhaps the most prominent of the Bright … Continue reading →

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Best Sellers, The New Republic and Waugh

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The current issue of The New Republic reviews an academic study of the best-selling novel. This is The Best Seller Code by Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers. The book is based on an analysis of 20,000 novels published in the US, from which … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Japan

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s novel Scoop as well as a collection of his short stories have been translated into Japanese and were recently published in connection with this year’s 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death. The translator is Tagaki Susumu and the books are published by Hakusuisha. … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Oxford News

Posted on September 16, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh figures in an article in the newspaper Catholic World Report written by a Roman Catholic Rhodes Scholar about her recent experiences as a student in Oxford. She mentions numerous Roman Catholic churches still active in Oxford outside the university … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Irons at BAFTA Session

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A report on actor Jeremy Iron’s recent appearance at BAFTA’s “Life in Pictures” series is posted on IndieWire. See also earlier post. In reviewing his career, Irons suggests that his selection as Charles Ryder in Granada’s 1981 TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, … Continue reading →

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Social Climbing Heroes

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In the current issue of the Anthony Powell Society Newsletter (Autumn 2016, No. 64) Simon Barnes has written the lead article in which he compares social climbers in three novels: Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time and … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Hemingway and “Beat-up Old Bastards”

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

An article in The Huffington Post earlier this week discusses Ernest Hemingway’s claims to have killed 122 “Krauts” during WWII and compares that claim with those of Chris Kyle (subject of the autobiography and film American Sniper) to have killed 160 enemy … Continue reading →

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Literary Family Rivalries

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Booksellers Barnes & Noble have posted a list of rivalries within literary families. The Waugh family makes the list: Evelyn, Auberon, and Alec WaughEvelyn Waugh is one of the most celebrated writers of all time, with books like Brideshead Revisited lodged … Continue reading →

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Oxford to Offer Waugh Seminar

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Department of Continuing Education has announced a one-week seminar next summer on the topic Evelyn Waugh: Beyond Brideshead. The theme is explained in the announcement which was posted yesterday: Since his death 50 years ago, Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading →

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