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Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of Stasiland, All That I Am, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life and the novella The Girl With the Dogs. [1] Anna’s novel Wifedom was a Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book of 2023. [2]
Anna Funder's 'Wifedom' unearths the story of Eileen 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 ...
However, Anna Funder claims in her 2023 book Wifedom that Orwell's biographers have underrated Eileen's achievements. [11] Funder believes that Eileen also organised all logistics for the ILP men at the front, running, Funder says, "the supply, communications and banking operation for the entire contingent."
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 ...
All That I Am garnered generally positive reviews and many awards. [3] David Marr said: "In language of admirable simplicity she explores the shadowy ambiguities lurking in her characters – ambiguities that have always fascinated her: the good that comes with bad and the bad with good". [2]
David John Taylor FRSL (born 1960) [1] is a British critic, novelist and biographer, who was born and raised in Norfolk. [2]After attending school in Norwich, he read modern history at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell. [3]
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 Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 19: It Is What I Think: 1947–1948: 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 20: Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living: 1949–1950 ...