Category Archives: Fiction

Waugh Exhibition Catalogue Available Online

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The catalogue of E.W. Pinxit: An Exhibition of the Graphic Art of Evelyn Waugh is available online and may be downloaded in pdf format from this link. It is written by Mark Everett with the assistence of Ed Maggs and Alice … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Article on Catholics in America Quoted

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Author and critic Terry Teachout who writes for the Wall Steert Journal and Commentary has posted on his arts news weblog, without comment, a quote from Evelyn Waugh’s 1949 Life Magazine article entitled “The American Epoch in the Catholic Church”: … Continue reading →

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Maggs Bros Exhibit Opens Today

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

There are additional notices regarding the Maggs Bros. booksellers exhibit of Waugh’s graphic artwork. See previous posts. These appear on the Spectator Life and artdaily.org websites. The Spectator Life article also has several reproductions. The exhibit opens today, 18 July and runs through Friday, … Continue reading →

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Arcadia and Country Houses (More)

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC Radio 3 broadcast of the Words and Music episode on the subject of “Arcadia” is now available on the internet at this link. It is more music than words, and if you want to know source of either, you … Continue reading →

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Telegraph Reviews Opening of Waugh Art Exhibit

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibit next week at Maggs Bros booksellers relating to Waugh’s work as a graphic artist, Michael Bird reviews his career in that field in today’s Sunday Telegraph. After describing Waugh’s movement from modernist iconoclast to opponent of … Continue reading →

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“Scoop-like” Novel Boosted

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In Peter Wilby’s New Stateman column, the new novel Splash! by Stephen Glover often likened to Waugh’s Scoop has been given another boost. As explained by Wilby, Scoop: … drew on Waugh’s experience of covering Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia (as it … 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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Et in Arcadia Ego (More)

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Latin phrase that Waugh used for the first chapter of Brideshead Revisited (“Et in Arcadio Ego”) was mentioned in a recent post in connection with Paul Theroux’s humorous allusion to it in his recent novel Mother Land. Since that was … Continue reading →

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London Lecture on Waugh’s Artwork

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A lecture by Waugh scholar Rebecca Moore has been announced by London booksellers Maggs Brothers. This will take place in their 48 Bedford Square premises on Tuesday, 25 July at 630-8pm. The store, in new premises, is also sponsoring an … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Mother Land

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Mother Land is the latest novel of Paul Theroux whose career has many similarities to that of Evelyn Waugh. Both made their living exclusively from writing after beginning as school teachers. Theroux’s teaching career began in the Peace Corps on … Continue reading →

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