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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 ...
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 .
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British 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.
Eileen O'Shaughnessy 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 incomplete biography, "Wifedom."
Nevertheless, Orwell momentarily continued to uphold his optimistic vision of socialism; in "Second Thoughts on James Burnham", a review of the titular author's works on managerialism, he criticised Burnham for his conservatism and pessimism. [6] But by the end of World War II, Orwell's health was deteriorating and his wife Eileen Blair had
The essay was first published on 19 February 1941 as the first volume of a series edited by T. R. Fyvel and Orwell, in the Searchlight Books published by Secker & Warburg. [1] Orwell's wife Eileen Blair described the theme of the essay as "how to be a socialist while Tory". [2]
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 Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author outlines ... There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June ...