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Two books about Orwell's relationship with his first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, and her role in his life and career, have been published: Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp (2020) [313] and Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (2023). [314] [307] In her book Funder claims that Orwell was misogynistic and sadistic ...
Eileen Maud Blair (née O'Shaughnessy, 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945) was a British poet and psychologist, involved in the Spanish Civil War.She was the first wife of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair).
The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 13: All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941–1942: Book 1986 — Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 14: Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: 1942–1943: Book ...
Sonia Mary Brownell (25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980), better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second wife of writer George Orwell. Sonia is believed to be the model for Julia , the heroine of Nineteen Eighty-Four .
Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair, George Orwell's little-known wife, who died during surgery in 1945 while her husband was in France, is the subject of a necessarily incomplete biography, "Wifedom."
In 1949, shortly before he died, the English author George Orwell prepared a list of notable writers and other people he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the anti-communist propaganda activities of the Information Research Department, a secret propaganda organisation of the British state under the Foreign Office.
British writer George Orwell wrote to a female friend to say that they could have sex twice a year with his wife's approval, a set of letters bought by Orwell's son show, nearly 70 years after his ...
The essay was first published on 19 February 1941 as the first volume of a series edited by T. R. Fyvel and Orwell, in the Searchlight Books published by Secker & Warburg. [1] Orwell's wife Eileen Blair described the theme of the essay as "how to be a socialist while Tory". [2]