Category Archives: Non-fiction

Martin Stannard to Lecture at Durham

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Durham University has announced that Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh’s biographer and co-executive editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, will lecture there early next year. His topic will be “Evelyn Waugh, America and Catholicism”. This will probably touch on … Continue reading →

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Waugh Letters on Offer

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Jonkers Books of Henley-on-Thames has posted an offering of Waugh items. In addition to first editions and signed copies, there are several letters for sale. The first is a batch of 7 (4 short letters and 3 postcards) to Christopher … Continue reading →

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Kelmscott Manor, Rossetti and Waugh

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The following article was sent by Waugh Society member Milena Borden: Kelmscott Manor built around 1600 was the Cotswolds home of William Morris – writer, designer and craftsman – from 1871 until his death in 1896. It was also the … Continue reading →

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Officers Among the Islands

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren continues his visits to locations associated with what he calls Evelyn Waugh’s Piers Court years. The first of these is “An Arsonist’s Progress” which explores the evolution of what became Waugh’s story Love Among the Ruins. This began … Continue reading →

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A New Voice in Catholic America

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Catholic Herald has announced that it will soon begin publishing a weekly edition in the USA. In discussing this decision, William Cash, chairman of the Herald, takes the opportunity to consider the journal’s past accomplishments in the UK: Throughout … Continue reading →

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Mid-October Roundup

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

–The US cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has announced two broadcasts of The Loved One in November and December. They have also published what look like they may be expanded program notes (by Jeff Stafford) for the occasion: In … Continue reading →

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Incomplete Works

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Press commissioned a review of three early volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh from its sister publication Essays in Criticism. A review of these volumes (Vile Bodies, Precocious Waughs, and Rossetti) has been ably written by … Continue reading →

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Political Roundup

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s novel Scoop tops the list of those works cited in this week’s political press: –Tina Brown writes on the 10th anniversary of her news website The Daily Beast and recalls the selection of its name: A vexing problem in … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Football, Ocean Liners and Bankers

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

–In the sports weblog Onside View, a blogger compares Waugh’s opening chapters of his 1930 travel book Labels to the situation facing Arsenal FC’s new manager:  … Waugh travelled, and one of his earlier writings on such subject, Labels, saw … Continue reading →

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Waugh: A Review and A Profile

Posted on September 30, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In the latest issue of the Australian literary journal Quadrant, Mark McGinness reviews the first volume of Waugh’s collected journalism in v. 26 (Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934) of OUP’s Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh edited by Prof Donat Gallagher. … Continue reading →

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