Category Archives: Fiction

Another Look at Brideshead (More)

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

This editorial message appeared in a recent TLS.  It relates to the subject of Eleanor’s Doughty’s article in The Critic that was discussed in a previous post. Here is the opening section from the TLS: Edith Wharton was buried in … Continue reading →

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Michaelmas Roundup

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Several religious journals carry a story by George Weigel about the elimination of the Papal States in the 19th century as part of Italy’s reunification. The article, as published in the interfaith journal First Things, opens with this: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading →

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Evelyn’s Last Dance

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren has posted two articles in his Brideshead Festival series in which Evelyn Waugh ponders the contents of the last two volumes of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. These are Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret … Continue reading →

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Another Look at Brideshead

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Literary critic Eleanor Doughty has taken another look at Brideshead Revisited on the occasion of the book’s 75th anniversary and doesn’t particularly like what she finds. This essay is published in The Critic and is entitled: “A little too mature: In … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Baby Jungman, Proust, Japan and Zeppelins

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Mark McGinness has written an obituary of Desmond Guinness for the Australian literary magazine Quadrant. In this he adds another Waugh connection not mentioned in the English and Irish papers. See previous post. After his marriage to his first wife … Continue reading →

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Castle Howard Exhibition: Brideshead Revisited at 75

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Castle Howard website features a fully and handsomely illustrated exhibition of photos from the two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited and other related sources. This illustrates in part how the two adaptations are similar in some respects and how … Continue reading →

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Presentation Copy of Brideshead On Offer

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

London booksellers Peter Harrington have a 1945 copy of Brideshead Revisited on offer. This is a presentation copy to Mgr Alfred Gilbey, chaplain to Roman Catholic students at Fisher House, Cambridge University. There is also an unpublished letter from Waugh … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Orwellian Dystopia

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Orwell Society has posted an interesting essay on the friendship of Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell with special reference to how Waugh’s 1953 novella Love Among the Ruins was intended as a response to Orwell’s 1948 novel 1984. This … Continue reading →

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Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) R I P

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Telegraph has an obituary of Ronald Harwood, noted primarily as a writer of screenplays based on adaptations of novels or plays.  These adaptations include such well-received films as the Oscar-winning The Pianist (2003), One Day in the Life … Continue reading →

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National Review’s Scoop Podcast

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

National Review has posted a 30 minute podcast devoted to Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. In the podcast NR’s John J Miller interviews Christopher Scalia of the American Enterprise Institute. Both participants are familiar with the book as well as Evelyn … Continue reading →

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