Category Archives: Festivals

Waugh’s Oxford Reviewed in Times; “The Scarlet Woman” Online

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times is the first paper to review the new book Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford to be published by the Bodleian Library later this month. The book is by Dr Barbara Cooke who is Co-Executive Editor of OUP’s Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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Waugh Scholar at Oxford Literary Festival

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Barbara Cooke, lecturer at Loughborough University and Executive Editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project will appear at the upcoming Oxford Literary Festival. Her subject will be Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford which is also the title of her new … Continue reading →

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Alexander Waugh to Chair Panel at Literary Leicester Festival

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A panel has been announced for the Literary Leicester Festival on the subject “Remembering Alexander Chancellor (1940-2017).” He was editor and contributor to several journals, including most notably The Spectator. The panel will he chaired by Alexander Waugh, his son-in-law … Continue reading →

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Interview at Castle Howard

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Sunday Times published an interview earlier this month of Victoria Howard. She is described as the new chatelaine of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire where both the TV and cinema versions of Brideshead Revisited were filmed. She refuses to … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh at the National Trust, Edinburgh Festival and Houston,TX

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh is appearing all over the place in today’s media reports: In the internet newspaper iNews, there is a story about problems being rained upon the National Trust, one of Britain’s once most beloved institutions. The Trust are the stewards of … Continue reading →

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Waugh Events Announced

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

There will be a panel on Evelyn Waugh at the Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film & Music in October. This will consist of Paula Byrne, Alex Preston and Justine Picardie who will discuss the life and loves of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Q & A

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Humorist Craig Brown writing in the Daily Mail makes a case for the elimination of the Q&A following any vocal presentation by an author. He is particularly bothered by the typical literary festival as a waste of time. In the article, … Continue reading →

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Waugh Panel at Cologne Literary Festival

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A discussion of Evelyn Waugh is scheduled as part of the International Literary Festival “lit.Cologne”. This will be convened on board the ship MS Rhein Energie at Frankenwerft, KD Anleger, 50667 Cologne on Saturday, 18 March 2017, at 21:00pm. Here’s an abbreviated … Continue reading →

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Waugh at Thanksgiving Table

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The San Diego Reader, a weekly alternative print newspaper, has an article imagining a Thanksgiving dinner at which Evelyn Waugh is one of the guests. The others are: writer and critic H.L. Mencken, Pogo Possum, Roman emperor Claudius, writer and … Continue reading →

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Mixed Results for Waugh in Imaginary Booker Prize Competitions

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The results are in from the competition at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to determine which book would have won the Booker prize for the year 1945 had there been one. Brideshead Revisited was on the shortlist and its case was … Continue reading →

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