Category Archives: Fiction

Evening Standard’s Waugh Twofer

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The Evening Standard reviews a book by David Kynaston and Francis Green of UCL entitled Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private Education Problem. According to the review by Ann McElvoy: What interests these two centre-Left writers is the degree of insulation that … Continue reading →

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End-of the-Month Roundup

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Gale Group Publishing Company, which makes a speciality of marketing and distribution of digital historical archives, has posted on the internet several articles from its archive of The Listener magazine. One of these is a 1979 article by Graham … Continue reading →

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Martin Stannard Lecture at Durham University Next Month (More)

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Durham University has posted more details about Martin Stannard’s lecture next month. The topic is Waugh’s visits to the USA in the late 1940s. Here’s a description from the Durham University website: About the lecture By 1947, the year of … Continue reading →

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Wartime TLS

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Gale Primary Sources has posted an article about how the TLS managed to thrive in the wartime period 1939-1945 while many other literary publications struggled or died. The article seems to be an extract from a longer work about TLS … Continue reading →

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Oxford College Announces Waugh Thesis

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Linacre College, Oxford has announced a DPhil thesis by one of its students. The title is “Evelyn Waugh: Travel Writing and Politics” and its author is Roger Irwin, a postgraduate student. The college is a postwar foundation, and its students … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Whigs, Scribblers, Converts and Teddy Bears

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–In a recent Wall Street Journal there is a review of a new book by Jeremy Black  entitled Charting the Past. This is a consideration of English history as described by historians of the 18th Century. It begins with this quote … Continue reading →

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Russell Baker 1925-2019

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Russell Baker, one of America’s leading journalists in the last half of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 93. He was best known as a reporter and columnist for the New York Times. But he got his … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Daleks and Poputchiks

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–The BBC has announced plans to issue a print version of a 1980s Dr Who episode that contains a plot line inspired by Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is explained on a website that tracks this sort of thing (BleedingCool.com) … Continue reading →

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Mitford and Merton and Waugh

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

—The London Magazine has published on its website a copy of Evelyn Waugh’s 1960 review of Nancy Mitford’s last novel Don’t Tell Alfred: While looking through our archive recently we came across this review by Evelyn Waugh of Nancy Mitford’s … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Lithuania

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A Lithuanian online newspaper Bernardinai.lt has a review of the Lithuanian translation of Vile Bodies (Vargingi kūnai). This is an alternative online newspaper published by the Franciscan community in Vilnius but intended to be objective rather than primarily religious in … Continue reading →

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