Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh

V-E Day Roundup

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–As the observance of the 75th anniversary of V-E Day approaches, the Daily Mail has posted in a slide show a collection of 1945 events that seemed to presage a return to a social system where class status was again … Continue reading →

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Post-Pandemic Predictions: A Roundup

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–David Aaronovitch writing in a recent issue of The Times posed the question what would be the cultural responses to the pandemic. This is in an article entitled “We’ll be free to enjoy the Roaring 2020s”. He thought the closest … Continue reading →

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Waugh and “The Editorial Line”

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Mexican newspaper El Universal has posted an opinion article on the political situation in Mexico that opens with a quote from Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This is entitled “La linea editorial”: Evelyn Waugh published in 1938 a satirical novel … Continue reading →

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Waugh in “Angloliguria”

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Massimo Bacigalupo, author of the 2017 book in Italian Angloliguria: From Byron to Hemingway, has written an article in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto about a “virtual trip” to three villas in Portofino during this time of lockdown. One of the spots … Continue reading →

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The Spectator at 10,000 (More)

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spectator’s celebration of its 10,000th issue continues to spread and produce comment. The Daily Telegraph provides an opportunity for The Spectator’s current editor Fraser Nelson to explain what he has found to be the magazine’s approach to politics: …David … Continue reading →

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New Yorker’s “Waugh Stories”

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The New Yorker has reposted its 2007 article entitled “Waugh Stories”. This apparently began life as a review of Alexander Waugh’s 2004 book Fathers and Sons but grew into something more ambitious in which the reviewer Joan Acocella launches into … Continue reading →

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The Spectator at 10,000

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spectator, always proud of its heritage as the oldest periodical in English, is now celebrating the publication of its 10,000th issue. As part of this, they commissioned a clerihew competition (“Two couplets, AABB, metrically clunky, laconic and humorous in … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Audrey Lucas and More

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Duncan Mclaren has added more information to his website concerning Waugh’s friendship with actress and writer Audrey Lucas. This takes the form of an imagined interview of Audrey by Nancy Mitford in advance of the now postponed Brideshead Festival at … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Journalism

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Literary Review in its latest newsletter has reposted Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s 1984 review of Donat Gallagher’s collection of Waugh’s journalism, Essays, Articles and Reviews. The publication of that collection and Wheatcroft’s review were contemporaneous with Martin Stannard’s Critical Heritage and … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh’s America

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

There are several articles this week that focus on Waugh’s trips to the USA in the late 1940s: –The most comprehesive is one by Roman Catholic publisher, educator and author Joshua Hren in the latest issue of the Jesuit journal, America … Continue reading →

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