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Eileen Maud Blair (née O'Shaughnessy, 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945) was the first wife of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). During World War II, she worked for the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information in London and the Ministry of Food. She was born in South Shields in the northeast of England. Her mother was Marie O ...
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 .
In January 2013 Marshal played Eileen Blair, wife of Eric Blair, in the BBC Radio 4 drama The Real George Orwell – Homage to Catalonia. She also played Queen Gertrude in the radio drama series “Elsinore”.
In 2008, after Tony Blair left office, she established the non-profit foundation the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which aims to support women entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Blair was adopted by Eileen [3] and Eric Blair (George Orwell), [4] and after their deaths, lived with Avril Dunn (née Blair, Orwell's sister, his legal guardian) and Bill Dunn. [ 1 ] Blair went to Loretto School from 1953 to 1960, and attended the agricultural colleges of Wiltshire College and Scotland's Rural College , before joining Massey ...
Eric Church and his wife Katherine Blasingame have been married since 2008.. They now share two kids together, sons Boone McCoy Church and Tennessee Hawkins Church. The Church family currently ...
The Rookie's Eric Winter and Roselyn Sánchez prove that it is possible to have a long-lasting marriage in Hollywood. Before meeting each other, Winter was married to actress Allison Ford from ...
Richard Blair (adoptive stepson) 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 .