Category Archives: Newspapers

75th Anniversary of Brideshead Book Publication

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The first book publication of Brideshead Revisited took place in London 75 years ago this week on 28 May 1945. In the period of slightly less than a year since Waugh had submitted his typescript to Chapman & Hall in … Continue reading →

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Brideshead @ 75: Sunday Telegraph

Posted on May 24, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

This is the opening day of Brideshead Revisited’s 75th anniversary week. The first book publication took place on 28 May 1945 in London. The Sunday Telegraph is first off the mark in its recognition of the event with an article … Continue reading →

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Monsignor Rittig Revisited

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Zagreb newspaper Večernji list has published an interview of the writer and religion scholar Margareta Matijevic who has recently written a book about the Yugoslav priest and  politician Svetozar Rittig. From what I can gather from the computerized translation … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Iberia

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Lisbon paper Diario de Noticias has begun the publication of a long article by Antonio Arauja entitled “Uma educação sentimental”. The paper is published weekly and the story’s first installment was printed in last week’s edition. It is essentially … Continue reading →

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David Pryce-Jones’s Signed Books

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Literary critic and historian David Pryce-Jones has written another memoir. This one is called Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime and consists of 90 memoirs of the authors of books in his collection which contain their signatures. In each case … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Selfie

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

In a recent post we mentioned Evelyn Waugh’s appearance in a response to  Spectator competition #3148-Selfie. This was set by Lucy Vickery in the 10,000th edition of the magazine: ‘Some famous painters are thought to have slipped small self-portraits into … Continue reading →

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Stephen Tennant: Underachieving Novelist

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The publicity surrounding the shuttered Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (see earlier posts) has apparently stirred up interest in Beaton’s friend and sometime collaborator Stephen Tennant. The Paris Review has posted an article reviewing Tennant’s career, with … Continue reading →

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Another Tourist in Africa

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

What is probably Evelyn Waugh’s least read book is A Tourist in Africa (1960). Cyril Connolly proclaimed it to be “quite the thinnest piece of book-making which Mr Waugh has undertaken.” The hardback copies were remaindered after his death and … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Booklists Abound

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

There have been several lists of recommended books or TV adaptations published in the last week as the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown continues. A number of these have included works by Evelyn Waugh: –The Daily Telegraph published two “Top 100” lists … Continue reading →

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Waugh Transformed

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph has written an article entitled “How the Second World War transformed British literature”. The subject is a good bit more narrow than the title suggests. In fact, he considers primarily how WWII transformed the … Continue reading →

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