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The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.
Julia is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Her last name is not revealed in the novel, but she is called Dixon in the 1954 BBC TV production [1] and Worthing in the Sandra Newman novel. The character is believed to be based on the author’s second wife Sonia Orwell.
The English People is an essay by English author George Orwell, first published in August 1947. It was commissioned in September 1943 by W. J. Turner, Collins's general editor, for the series Britain in Pictures. The idea for the series came from the Ministry of Information.
T. R. Fyvel, who was a colleague and friend of George Orwell during the last decade of the writer's life, and other friends of Orwell, have said that Sonia was the model for Julia, the heroine of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the "girl from the fiction department" who brings love and warmth to the middle-aged hero, Winston Smith. [9]
Winston meets a mysterious woman named Julia, a fellow member of the Outer Party who also bears resentment toward the party's ways; the two become lovers. Winston soon gets in touch with O'Brien , a member of the Inner Party who Winston believes is secretly a member of The Brotherhood , a resistance organisation dedicated to overthrowing the ...
The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage (OR) Penguin Great Ideas Books v. Cigarettes (BvC) Decline of the English Murder (DEM) Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (STCM) Why I Write (WIW) Ruins. Orwell’s Reports as War Correspondent in France, Germany and Austria from February until June 1945 (R) Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (SaE)
Shelden's biography of George Orwell was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Shelden's first book, George Orwell: Ten Animal Farm Letters to His Agent, Leonard Moore (1984), was an edited collection drawn from letters between Orwell and Moore that Shelden found at the Lilly Library and was the first to publicize. [5]