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  2. Anna Funder - Wikipedia

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    Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of Stasiland, All That I Am, ... George Orwell's first wife. [28] [29] [30] References

  3. Was George Orwell's monstrous behavior responsible for his ...

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    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 ...

  4. Eileen Blair - Wikipedia

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    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."

  5. The new voices and hidden gems of Hay Festival 2024 - AOL

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    Two of the most talked-about books last year were Anna Funder’s Wifedom, which revealed that George Orwell wasn’t an A-star husband to his first wife Eileen, and Sandra Newman’s Julia, a ...

  6. George Orwell - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. George Orwell's wife let him offer sex to female friend: letters

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    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 ...

  8. All That I Am (novel) - Wikipedia

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    All of the characters in All That I Am are real people; however Funder has reconstructed their stories, as a lot of the memories and moments that compel the story cannot be verified. In her notes Funder writes: "I have made connections and suppositions, for that I take full responsibility."

  9. Ministries in Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Orwell made a similar reference to the Ministry of Plenty in his allegorical work Animal Farm when, in the midst of a blight upon the farm, Napoleon the pig orders the silo to be filled with sand, then to place a thin sprinkling of grain on top, which fools human visitors into being dazzled about Napoleon's boasting of the farm's superior economy.