Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh

The Loved One Among Top 10 Hollywood Novels

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In the latest Publishers Weekly, The Loved One is named among the top 10 Hollywood novels. The list is made up by Michael Friedman whose own Hollywood novel, Martian Dawn (2006), has just been reprinted together with two previously unpublished novels, … Continue reading →

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Another Brideshead Birthday Greeting

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Today’s Daily Telegraph carries another article by Eleanor Doughty marking the 70th anniversary of Brideshead Revisited‘s publication on May 28, 1945. The article begins by discussing models used by Waugh for characters in the novel, breaking no new ground in … Continue reading →

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Lord Marchmain and the 7th Earl

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Guardian earlier this week ran a review of a book by Michael Bloch entitled Closet Queens. This is a history of homosexuals in English politics before 1967 when the criminality of homosexuality was ended. One of the lives considered … Continue reading →

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Naming Characters: Waugh and Fleming

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In an article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Christopher Howse compares the practice of Ian Fleming and Evelyn Waugh to use the names of real persons as characters in their works: “There’s nowt so queer as names.” In Fleming’s James Bond novels, Howse cites … Continue reading →

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Brideshead 70th Anniversary Marked in Press

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Several print publications and other news media carried brief stories yesterday marking the 70th anniversary of the U.K. publication of Brideshead Revisited  on May 28, 1945. Here’s a link to one in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. The Times newspaper … Continue reading →

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Major Study of Waugh’s Post War Works to be Released This Week

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Ashgate Publishing has announced the release later this week of a major study of Waugh’s later fiction. This is The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post War Fiction. The book is by Marcel DeCoste, Associate Professor of English … Continue reading →

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Waugh Letter a Hit at Hay Festival

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

At this year’s Hay Festival, there was the repeat of of an event from previous years where letters from noteworthy persons of the past are read aloud by their counterparts of the present. The event is called “Letters Live” and has … Continue reading →

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Peter Watson: Biography of Everard’s Angel

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s Spectator reviews a biography of Pater Watson, probably best known to Waugh fans as the financial backer of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine during WWII and early postwar austerity. The magazine and Connolly are satirized as Survival and Everard … Continue reading →

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Sale Announced of Anthony Powell’s Waugh-Inscribed Books

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Bonhams has announced the sale next month of several books by Evelyn Waugh, including some of biographical interest inscribed to his friend Anthony Powell. For example, Waugh inscribed Powell’s copy of Decline and Fall (1928) with the message, “For Tony … Continue reading →

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Mrs. Stitch in the NYRB

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s New York Review of Books (June 4) has a retrospective article (“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”) by Robert Gottlieb  on the life of Evelyn Waugh’s good friend, Diana Cooper. The occasion for the article is the … Continue reading →

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