Category Archives: Fiction

Another Lygon and More Bridesheads

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Mail has an article about a recently pubished diary kept by two early women undergraduates at St Hugh’s College, Oxford: Dorothy Hammonds and Margaret Mowll. Their diary starts in 1905 and describes the restricted lives of the Oxford … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Film Emerges in Weinstein Scandal

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In wake of the sexual harassment scandal involving US filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, the New York Post has reported an incident arising from the production of the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. In 2007, Weinstein visited the production on location … Continue reading →

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Three Generations of Waughs in The Oldie

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Various Waughs (and their associates) are scattered throughout the pages of this month’s issue of The Oldie. The leading feature article by Alan Thomas is about the Bright Young People and opens with a reference to Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies: … Continue reading →

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London in the Slump

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A new book has been published about London in the 1930s. This is entitled Playboys and Mayfair Men and is written by Angus McLaren, Professor Emeritus at University of Victoria. The book focuses on a sensational jewel robbery at the … Continue reading →

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Waugh in the World

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In the current issue of the Italian-language Roman Catholic website Radio Spada, Luca Fumagalli has written an article briefly summarizing what looks like all of Waugh’s novels. The article is in Italian and its title is translated “Teddy Bears, Rosaries, … Continue reading →

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New Hollinghurst Novel Reviewed in Guardian

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Guardian reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel earlier this week. The review is by Alex Preston and opens with a link to a Waugh novel: Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war … Continue reading →

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Breitbart: Blows Fall in Alabama

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Breitbart news, in-house journal of the alt-right and home of former Trump insider Steve Bannon, has quoted Evelyn Waugh in a story gloating about the results of the Alabama primary earlier this week: In his 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, author … Continue reading →

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Put Out More Rabans

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The London Review of Books has published a biographical description of his father’s experience in the early days of WWII by Jonathan Raban. One of the few literary allusions in the article is Raban’s reference to Evelyn Waugh’s Put Out … Continue reading →

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Julia’s Meltdown and the “Filial Correction”

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Catholic Herald has an article by its US editor Michael Davis in which he explains what is politely called the “filial correction” in Roman Catholic circles. This is a group which has written to the Pope explaining how he … Continue reading →

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Anthony Powell Biography to Appear Next Week

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Hilary Spurling, who has written a new and much awaited biography of Anthony Powell, has served up an appetizer in an article published in the Times. She starts with a survey of the major 20th century writers who admired Powell’s … Continue reading →

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