Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal

Evelyn Waugh’s America

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

There are several articles this week that focus on Waugh’s trips to the USA in the late 1940s: –The most comprehesive is one by Roman Catholic publisher, educator and author Joshua Hren in the latest issue of the Jesuit journal, America … Continue reading →

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Anthropologist at the Hypocrites Club

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

A new book surveys the professional career of E E Evans-Pritchard, a noted anthropologist who made his reputation with studies of Sudanese cultures. This biography is entitled The Anthropological Lens: A Dandy Among the Azande and is written by Christopher … Continue reading →

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Roundup of Updates

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–The Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition carries a story by Tobias Grey about the upcoming exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s works. This opens on 12 March at the National Portrait Gallery in London. See earlier posts. After describing the genesis of … Continue reading →

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Pre-Valentine Roundup

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Duncan McLaren has added a new Waugh chum in his descriptions of “visitors” to the Castle Howard Brideshead Festival. This is Patrick Balfour who was a friend of Waugh from his Oxford days. They remained friends until Waugh’s death. Balfour … Continue reading →

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Groundhog Day Roundup

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Duncan McLaren adds a second entry in his new series of posts which involve the imagined visits of Waugh’s friends to this summer’s Brideshead Festival at Castle Howard. In this one, Dick Young (a fellow schoolmaster at Arnold House and … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Mitford: Grave Problems

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s friend Nancy Mitford is in the news relating to the publication in the USA of her biography by Laura Thompson, Life in a Cold Climate. See previous posts. The Wall Street Journal (10 January 2020) has a favorable review by … Continue reading →

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Autumnal Equinox Round-up

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–A N Wilson writing in the Times newspaper reviews a new book by Dominic Sandbrook. This is number 5 in a series Sandbrook is writing about the cultural and social history of England in the post Suez period. It covers … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Whigs, Scribblers, Converts and Teddy Bears

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–In a recent Wall Street Journal there is a review of a new book by Jeremy Black  entitled Charting the Past. This is a consideration of English history as described by historians of the 18th Century. It begins with this quote … Continue reading →

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Charm Offensive

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In the Wall Street Journal a review by Thomas Vinciguerra of Joseph Epstein’s new book Charm: The Elusive Enchantment begins with this: There was no avoiding it. On page 26 of Joseph Epstein’s excursion into the nature of charm, there … Continue reading →

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William Boyd, Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Simon Kuper writing in the Financial Times reports an interview with novelist William Boyd. This is on the occasion of publication of Boyd’s latest novel Love is Blind: Boyd draws a “binary division” between two kinds of novelist: autobiographers, such … Continue reading →

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