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Evelyn John St Loe Strachey (21 October 1901 – 15 July 1963) was a British Labour politician and writer. A journalist by profession, Strachey was elected to Parliament in 1929 . He was initially a disciple of Oswald Mosley , and, feeling that the Second Labour Government was not doing enough to combat unemployment, joined Mosley in founding ...
Betrayal of the Left also contained an essay by John Strachey attacking totalitarianism. [3] It was particularly critical of the Communist Party-organised People's Convention of January 1941, the high point of the party's revolutionary defeatism during the period of Stalin's alliance with Hitler. It marked a decisive break by the democratic ...
Strachey married Anne Wombwell (died 1836), daughter of George Wombwell. [5] [9] They had five sons, two of whom died young, and five daughters. [10] The sons included John Strachey (1773–1808) and George Strachey (1776–1849), both judges in India. [11] [12] The third son to reach adulthood, Christopher Strachey (1778–1855), was a naval ...
The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels, and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair ... John Strachey, and others.
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 (i.e. to both left-wing authoritarian communism and to right-wing fascism) and support of democratic socialism.
John Strachey (politician) (1901–1963), British Labour politician John Strachey (priest) (1737–1818), Archdeacon of Suffolk Jack Strachey (1894–1972), English composer and songwriter
The club supplied a book chosen every month by Gollancz and his panel (Harold Laski and John Strachey) to its members, many of whom took part in one of the 1,500 Left Discussion Groups scattered around the country. The books and pamphlets with their distinctive covers—orange for paperback (1936–1938) and red for hardback (1938–1948 ...
"Such, Such Were the Joys" is a long autobiographical essay by the English writer George Orwell.. In the piece, Orwell describes his experiences between the ages of eight and thirteen, in the years before and during World War I (from September 1911 to December 1916), while a pupil at a preparatory school: St Cyprian's, in the seaside town of Eastbourne, in Sussex.