Category Archives: World War II

Brideshead at 75

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

It was 75 years today that Evelyn Waugh completed his draft of Brideshead Revisited and sent it off to the typist. According to Robert Murray Davis (Evelyn Waugh, Writer, Chapter 6), Waugh had first mentioned writing another novel in October … Continue reading →

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William Boyd’s A to Z of Evelyn Waugh

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Lancing College has posted a report of the talk at the college’s annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture given last month by novelist William Boyd. Here’s Lancing’s description of the event: William Boyd, the master story teller, novelist and screenwriter delighted his … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Visit to Vis

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The Observer has published an interview of Croatian writer Srećko Horvat whose new book Poetry from the Future will be issued next week. The interviewer Andrew Anthony describes him as “one of the busiest leftwing political activists in Europe”, noting his … Continue reading →

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New French Edition of POMF Reviewed

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The Paris newspaper Liberation has published a detailed review of the new French edition of Put Out Out More Flags (Hissez le grand pavois; literally “Hoist the great bulwark”). This is by Philippe Garnier who begins by explaining that the … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s “Hungry Novels” in TLS

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Literary journalist and critic Laura Freeman writes in this week’s TLS of a subgenre she defines as the “hungry novels” which flourished in the 1940s-50s. Her essay opens with an extended reference to the scene in Brideshead Revisited where Waugh … Continue reading →

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Wartime TLS

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Gale Primary Sources has posted an article about how the TLS managed to thrive in the wartime period 1939-1945 while many other literary publications struggled or died. The article seems to be an extract from a longer work about TLS … Continue reading →

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Wodehouse Exhibit Features Waugh Memorabilia

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The following report was prepared by Waugh Society member Milena Borden: P G Wodehouse: The Man and His Work introduces the Wodehouse archive acquired by the British Library in 2016 on a loan from his step-grandson Sir Edward Cazalet. This … Continue reading →

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Something for the New Year

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Constable has announced the publication later in the new year of a book by D J Taylor entitled Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51: Who were the Lost Girls? At least a dozen or so young women at large in … Continue reading →

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Officers Among the Islands

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Duncan McLaren continues his visits to locations associated with what he calls Evelyn Waugh’s Piers Court years. The first of these is “An Arsonist’s Progress” which explores the evolution of what became Waugh’s story Love Among the Ruins. This began … Continue reading →

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Brexit, Cameron and Ivor Claire

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Dominic Green, who recently wrote an essay about Waugh’s military career (see previous post), has now written a report about the march of 700,000 people in London last weekend demanding a “People’s Vote” on Brexit. The story appears in the … Continue reading →

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