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Brideshead @ 75: A N Wilson, The Oldie and The Folio Society

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oldie has posted A N Wilson’s introduction to the Folio Society’s 2018 reprint of Brideshead Revisited. While this may not be denominated by Wilson or The Oldie as a commemoration of the novel’s 75th anniversary, we should be entitled … Continue reading →

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Bright Younger People

Posted on June 22, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

In yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, Toby Young writes about his days at Oxford in the 1980s, energized to do so by a new book out later this week by Dafydd Jones. This is entitled Oxford, The Last Hurrah. The US … Continue reading →

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Juneteenth Roundup

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–A recent article in the Times newspaper criticizes plans for reopening some schools after lockdown with what it sees as a confusing “blend” of in-school live and at-home online teaching. Alex Massie opens the article with a quote from Evelyn … 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: The Economist and The Tablet

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–The current issue of The Economist includes in its Arts section an article entitled “The Flyte club.” This is the magazine’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead in 1945. After a brief survey of the somewhat … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Protests and Summer

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–The “Rhodes Must Fall” debate has been revived in Oxford in the context of the Black Lives Matter protests. See previous post. In the Daily Mail, a comment on the matter by Evelyn Waugh is brought to bear: Oxford will … Continue reading →

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Brideshead @ 75: National Review and Diario de Noticias

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

—The National Review has posted an article commemorating the 75th anniversary of Brideshead Revisited. The article is by NR columnist Madeleine Kearns and is subtitled “The best 20th-century novel on time and grace.” It opens with this: Between December 1943 and … Continue reading →

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ILP Acquires Rights to Waugh Works

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Publishing industry journals have announced that a new firm has acquired the right to license the copyrighted works of Evelyn Waugh.  These have been managed for many years by the successors to the A D Peters firm. Here’s an excerpt … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Riots and Pestilence

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Conservative essayist and editor Roger Kimball writing in the journal The Epoch Times (describing itself as “non-partisan” but otherwise characterized elsewhere) addresses the controversial subject of political protests and street riots in the USA. The article is entitled “Those Burning … Continue reading →

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Brideshead @ 75: Tablet, Quadrant, Penguin

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

More commemorations of the Brideshead anniversary have been posted: –Eleanor Doughty writing in The Tablet confesses in her introduction that, despite being a dedicated Waugh fan, she has never liked this particular volume. She surveys other literary journalists and scholars, … Continue reading →

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