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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. [1] [2] Sonia worked with the Information Research Department (IRD), a propaganda department of the British Foreign Office, which ...
A middle of the road paper surmised that Orwell's account was likely to "give a retrospective retch to Americans" who had patronized Parisian restaurants. [30] In the Adelphi, C. Day Lewis wrote, "Orwell's book is a tour of the underworld, conducted without hysteria or prejudice [...] a model of clarity and good sense."
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.
In October he married Sonia Brownell, who prepared plans to take him to the Swiss Alps. Orwell was getting weaker by the beginning of 1950. Sonia spent most of 20 January with Orwell in his private ward but left in the early evening to have dinner with Lucian Freud and another friend. A visitor came and left a parcel outside the room in which ...
Blair's stepmother Sonia died in 1980, passing the income from the Orwell estate on to him. [6] In 1985, Blair bought Loch Craignish (self-catering) Cottages, which he ran until 2008. Having sold his business in 2008, Blair dedicated his time to preserving the memory of his father, George Orwell, which he continues today. [7]
Warburg is an important figure in the history and study of Cold War propaganda due to his work with Orwell's widow Sonia Orwell in a collaboration with the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret propaganda wing of the British Foreign Office, which helped to increase the fame of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Sonia Brownell → Sonia Orwell – Clearly her common name, the concept of legal name in Britain is not straightforward. She was not Sonia Brownell for much of her life, she could have been technically Sonia Blair then Sonia Pitt-Rivers. Relisted. Jenks24 10:04, 17 July 2012 (UTC) PatGallacher 20:39, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
The mid-1950s represented the low point of his life. Obsessed by George Orwell's glamorous widow Sonia Orwell, he ended up homeless, sleeping in the waiting-room at Euston station, on underground trains, and on friends' settees. He also had a brief spell in prison for non-payment of debts.