Category Archives: Non-fiction

Waugh’s Politics Surveyed in “The Critic”

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Critic magazine has published another article on Evelyn Waugh following hard on the short article by Eleanor Doughty dealing with Brideshead Revisited, discussed in two previous posts. The latest posting is a feature length article by Bruce Newsome who … 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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Tourist in Africa OUP Volume Announced

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Press has announced the publication of another new volume in its Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. This is A Tourist in Africa (1960) and will be volume 25 in the series. Here’s the description from the OUP’s … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Agony Aunts and Metroland

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–In the Daily Telegraph, Rowan Pelling muses over whether novelists would make good advice to the lovelorn “agony aunts”. Pelling has always thought Edith Wharton would be excellent and notes that Simone de Beauvoir and Anaïs Nin in fact functioned … Continue reading →

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Roundup

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Irish Times has a story about a visit to Birr Castle in Ireland. This is the home of the Earls of Rosse, and the present Lady Rosse conducts the IT ‘s reporter, Rosita Boland, through the house in a televised … Continue reading →

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A Handful of Offense

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Writing in the Catholic Herald, novelist and critic Philip Hensher considers the implications of the current movement to suppress or destroy monuments and other public expressions that give offense to the present generation. This is in an article entitled: “Many … Continue reading →

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Another Spanish Review of Wine in Peace and War

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

A few weeks after the appearance of an article about Waugh’s Wine in Peace and War appeared in a regional Spanish paper, another article has appeared in the Canary Islands. This is by Luis M Alonso and is entitled “El … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Saint Sophia

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

A story by Dr Binoy Kampmark, Selwyn College, Cambridge, about the reconversion of the Saint Sophia cathedral in Istanbul from a museum to a mosque opens with this quote from Evelyn Waugh: When the caustic Evelyn Waugh visited the majestic … Continue reading →

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Saccone & Speed Profiled in Spanish Paper

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spanish language newspaper Diario de Jerez has published a feature story on the wine merchants Saccone & Speed. The firm was founded and located in nearby Gibraltar and imported wine from, inter alia, the province of Jerez. A portion … Continue reading →

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Summer Solstice Roundup

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Peter Quennell may be having a revival. Duncan McLaren (see previous post) has now been joined by A N Wilson in recounting his career. Wilson in a memoir posted by The Oldie discusses several first hand meetings he had with … Continue reading →

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