Tag Archives: Canonbury Square

Flag-Day Roundup

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

–A movie blog (SlashFilm.com) has posted a preview of a new TV adaptation under preparation for Netflix. This is based on the fantasy comics series The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. According to the report, the story has a Waugh connection: … Continue reading →

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Rolle’s Ramblings (More)

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Elisa Rolle, chronicler of the LGBT community in a series of books describing their lives and locations, has posted from her books another entry mentioning Evelyn Waugh. See earlier post. This is from Queer Places, v 2 (2016) and describes the … Continue reading →

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Orwell Society Visits Waugh Site

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A member of the Orwell Society has posted a report of a visit made by a group of its members to North London sites associated with George Orwell. The visit started in Hampstead with a stop at the site of … Continue reading →

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Waugh Connections

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Times gossip columnist Patrick Kidd discusses Phiip Eade’s identification of models for Waugh characters in today’s “Diary”: …Lord Parakeet in Decline and Fall was based on Gavin Henderson, an exceedingly camp noble who, on becoming Lord Faringdon, opened a speech … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh’s Old Neighborhood

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s Observer ran an article about the recent transformation of the borough of Islington from the London home of New Labour’s founder Tony Blair to a district that now seems to be exemplified by a movement to revert the Labour Party to … Continue reading →

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