Category Archives: Festivals

Evelyn’s Last Dance

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren has posted two articles in his Brideshead Festival series in which Evelyn Waugh ponders the contents of the last two volumes of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. These are Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret … Continue reading →

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Castle Howard Exhibition: Brideshead Revisited at 75

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Castle Howard website features a fully and handsomely illustrated exhibition of photos from the two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited and other related sources. This illustrates in part how the two adaptations are similar in some respects and how … Continue reading →

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Graham Greene and Waugh Discuss Powell Novel

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

In the latest installment of imaginary encounters among Evelyn Waugh and his Oxford friends at the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival, Duncan McLaren has Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh discuss Anthony Powell’s 1971 novel Books Do Furnish a Room. This was the … Continue reading →

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Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

In Duncan McLaren’s latest series of articles, Evelyn Waugh’s friends from Oxford are collecting at the Brideshead Festival. The last of these, by my count based on Duncan’s own projections, is Graham Greene. The first installment of the Greene episode … Continue reading →

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Apthorpe and Widmerpool

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

In Duncan McLaren’s latest posting, Anthony Powell joins the host of other writer friends of Evelyn Waugh who are either posthumously present or talked about at the recently postponed Castle Howard conference. In this case, Powell and several of his … Continue reading →

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Peter Quennell: Reviewer and Rival

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Two recent articles by Duncan McLaren have been devoted to Peter Quennell. Waugh had developed a particular dislike of Quennell (similar to that he had of other literary critics such as Alan Pryce-Jones and Edmund Wilson). The acquaintanceship between Waugh … Continue reading →

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Brideshead @ 75: Castle Howard, The Spectator, BBC

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Today is the 75th anniversary of the first book publication of Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall and the Book Society jointly issued the book in London on 28 May 1945. The occasion has been marked in several recent events: –Castle … Continue reading →

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Ambrose Silk + Anthony Blanche = Brian Howard

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren has posted another of his profiles of Waugh’s friends as they foregather at Castle Howard in anticipation of a literary festival. The recent postponement of that event may require some adjustment in the arrival of future participants, but … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Festival Postponed

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The organizers of the Brideshead Festival scheduled for this summer at Castle Howard have announced its postponement. Here is a copy of their press release: “In the interest of the health and the well-being of our participants, visitors, employees and … Continue reading →

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The Resurfacing of Robert Byron

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Robert Byron has appeared at the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival–at least on Duncan McLaren’s website. In his latest posting, McLaren arranges that Nancy Mitford, a close friend of both Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron, engages in an extended conversation with … Continue reading →

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