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Orwell's portrait, 1943 Born Eric Arthur Blair ( 1903-06-25)25 June 1903,, (now,, ) Died 21 January 1950 ( 1950-01-21) (aged 46),, England, United Kingdom Resting place, Oxfordshire, England Pen name George Orwell Occupation Novelist, essayist, journalist, critic Alma mater Genre,, satire Subject,,,,, Notable works Years active 1928–1950 Spouse ( m. 1936; her death 1945) ( m. 1949; his death 1950) Signature Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of, opposition to, and outspoken support of. Orwell wrote, poetry, fiction, and journalism. He is best known for the allegorical (1945) and the novel (1949). His non-fiction works, including (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and (1938), an account of his experiences in the, are widely acclaimed, as are his on politics, literature,, and culture. In 2008, ranked him second on a list of 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945'. Orwell's work continues to influence and, and the term – descriptive of totalitarian or social practices – has entered the language together with many of his, including,,,,,,,, and.

Playing fields at St. Blair's time at the school inspired his essay '. At the age of five, Eric was sent as a day-boy to a in Henley-on-Thames, which Marjorie also attended. It was a Roman Catholic run by French nuns, who had been exiled from France after religious education was banned in 1903.

His mother wanted him to have a education, but his family could not afford the fees, and he needed to earn a scholarship. Ida Blair's brother Charles Limouzin recommended,, East Sussex. Limouzin, who was a proficient golfer, knew of the school and its headmaster through the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club, where he won several competitions in 1903 and 1904. The headmaster undertook to help Blair to win a scholarship, and made a private financial arrangement that allowed Blair's parents to pay only half the normal fees.

In September 1911 Eric arrived at St Cyprian's. He boarded at the school for the next five years, returning home only for school holidays. He knew nothing of the reduced fees, although he 'soon recognised that he was from a poorer home'. Blair hated the school and many years later wrote an essay ', published posthumously, based on his time there. At St Cyprian's, Blair first met, who became a writer.

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Many years later, as the editor of, Connolly published several of Orwell's essays. While at St Cyprian's, Blair wrote two poems that were published in the. He came second to Connolly in the, had his work praised by the school's external examiner, and earned scholarships to and. But inclusion on the Eton scholarship roll did not guarantee a place, and none was immediately available for Blair. He chose to stay at St Cyprian's until December 1916, in case a place at Eton became available. In January, Blair took up the place at Wellington, where he spent the Spring term. In May 1917 a place became available as a at Eton.

He remained at Eton until December 1921, when he left midway between his 18th and 19th birthday. Wellington was 'beastly', Orwell told his childhood friend Jacintha Buddicom, but he said he was 'interested and happy' at Eton. His principal tutor was, Fellow of, who also gave him advice later in his career. Blair was briefly taught French by., who was at Eton with Blair, noted that he and his contemporaries appreciated Huxley's linguistic flair. Cyril Connolly followed Blair to Eton, but because they were in separate years, they did not associate with each other. Blair's academic performance reports suggest that he neglected his academic studies, but during his time at Eton he worked with to produce a magazine, The Election Times, joined in the production of other publications – College Days and Bubble and Squeak – and participated in the. His parents could not afford to send him to a university without another scholarship, and they concluded from his poor results that he would not be able to win one.

Runciman noted that he had a romantic idea about the, and the family decided that Blair should join the, the precursor of the Indian Police Service. For this he had to pass an entrance examination. His father had retired to, Suffolk, by this time; Blair was enrolled at a there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his Classics, English, and History. He passed the entrance exam, coming seventh out of the 26 candidates who exceeded the pass mark.

Policing in Burma [ ]. Blair pictured in a passport photo during his Burma years Blair's maternal grandmother lived at, so he chose a posting in Burma. In October 1922 he sailed on board SS Herefordshire via the and to join the in Burma. A month later, he arrived at and travelled to the police training school in. After a short posting at, Burma's principal, he was posted to the frontier outpost of in the at the beginning of 1924.

Working as an imperial police officer gave him considerable responsibility while most of his contemporaries were still at university in England. When he was posted farther east in the Delta to as a sub-divisional officer, he was responsible for the security of some 200,000 people. At the end of 1924, he was promoted to Assistant District Superintendent and posted to, closer to Rangoon. Syriam had the refinery of the, 'the surrounding land a barren waste, all vegetation killed off by the fumes of pouring out day and night from the stacks of the refinery.'

But the town was near Rangoon, a cosmopolitan seaport, and Blair went into the city as often as he could, 'to browse in a bookshop; to eat well-cooked food; to get away from the boring routine of police life'. In September 1925 he went to, the home of, the second largest prison in Burma. In Insein, he had 'long talks on every conceivable subject' with Elisa Maria Langford-Rae (who later married ). She noted his 'sense of utter fairness in minutest details'.

British Club in (in Orwell's time, it occupied only the ground floor) In Burma, Blair acquired a reputation as an outsider. He spent much of his time alone, reading or pursuing non- activities, such as attending the churches of the ethnic group. A colleague, Roger Beadon, recalled (in a 1969 recording for the BBC) that Blair was fast to learn the language and that before he left Burma, 'was able to speak fluently with Burmese priests in 'very high-flown Burmese.' ' Blair made changes to his appearance in Burma that remained for the rest of his life. 'While in Burma, he acquired a moustache similar to those worn by officers of the British regiments stationed there. [He] also acquired some tattoos; on each knuckle he had a small untidy blue circle. Many Burmese living in rural areas still sport tattoos like this – they are believed to protect against bullets and snake bites.'

Later, he wrote that he felt guilty about his role in the work of and he 'began to look more closely at his own country and saw that England also had its oppressed.' In April 1926 he moved to Moulmein, where his maternal grandmother lived. At the end of that year, he was assigned to in, where he contracted in 1927. Entitled to a in England that year, he was allowed to return in July due to his illness. While on leave in England and on holiday with his family in in September 1927, he reappraised his life. Deciding against returning to Burma, he resigned from the Indian Imperial Police to become a writer.

He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel (1934) and the essays ' (1931) and ' (1936). London and Paris [ ]. Blair's 1927 lodgings in, London In England, he settled back in the family home at, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an dinner. He visited his old tutor Gow at Cambridge for advice on becoming a writer. In 1927 he moved to London., a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and by the end of 1927 he had moved into rooms in; a commemorates his residence there. Pitter's involvement in the move 'would have lent it a reassuring respectability in Mrs Blair's eyes.' Pitter had a sympathetic interest in Blair's writing, pointed out weaknesses in his poetry, and advised him to write about what he knew.

In fact he decided to write of 'certain aspects of the present that he set out to know' and 'ventured into the – the first of the occasional sorties he would make to discover for himself the world of poverty and the down-and-outers who inhabit it. He had found a subject. These sorties, explorations, expeditions, tours or immersions were made intermittently over a period of five years.' In imitation of, whose writing he admired (particularly ), Blair started to explore the poorer parts of London. On his first outing he set out to, spending his first night in a common lodging house, possibly George Levy's 'kip'.

For a while he 'went native' in his own country, dressing like a, adopting the name P. Burton and making no concessions to middle-class and expectations; he recorded his experiences of the low life for use in ', his first published essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, (1933). – North Parade In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents' house in, a coastal town in, which remained his base for the next five years. The family was well established in the town and his sister Avril was running a tea-house there.

He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter who worked as a gym-teacher at in the town. Although Salkeld rejected his offer of marriage, she remained a friend and regular correspondent for many years. He also renewed friendships with older friends, such as Dennis Collings, whose girlfriend Eleanor Jacques was also to play a part in his life. In early 1930 he stayed briefly in,, with his sister Marjorie and her husband Humphrey Dakin, who was as unappreciative of Blair as when they knew each other as children. Blair was writing reviews for Adelphi and acting as a private tutor to a disabled child at Southwold.

He then became tutor to three young brothers, one of whom,, later became a distinguished academic. 'His history in these years is marked by dualities and contrasts. There is Blair leading a respectable, outwardly eventless life at his parents' house in Southwold, writing; then in contrast, there is Blair as Burton (the name he used in his down-and-out episodes) in search of experience in the kips and spikes, in the East End, on the road, and in the hop fields of Kent.' He went painting and bathing on the beach, and there he met Mabel and Francis Fierz, who later influenced his career. Over the next year he visited them in London, often meeting their friend Max Plowman. He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees, where he could 'change' for his sporadic tramping expeditions. One of his jobs was domestic work at a lodgings for (two shillings and sixpence, or one-eighth of a pound) a day.

Blair now contributed regularly to Adelphi, with ' appearing in August 1931. From August to September 1931 his explorations of poverty continued, and, like the protagonist of, he followed the tradition of working in the Kent fields. He kept a diary about his experiences there. Afterwards, he lodged in the, but could not stand it for long, and with financial help from his parents moved to Windsor Street, where he stayed until Christmas. 'Hop Picking', by Eric Blair, appeared in the October 1931 issue of, whose editorial staff included his old friend Cyril Connolly.

Mabel Fierz put him in contact with, who became his. At this time rejected A Scullion's Diary, the first version of Down and Out.

On the advice of Richard Rees, he offered it to, but their editorial director,, also rejected it. Blair ended the year by deliberately getting himself arrested, so that he could experience Christmas in prison, but the authorities did not regard his 'drunk and disorderly' behaviour as imprisonable, and he returned home to Southwold after two days in a police cell. Teaching career [ ] In April 1932 Blair became a teacher at The Hawthorns High School, a school for boys in, West London. This was a small school offering private schooling for children of local tradesmen and shopkeepers, and had only 14 or 16 boys aged between ten and sixteen, and one other master. While at the school he became friendly with the curate of the local parish church and became involved with activities there.

Mabel Fierz had pursued matters with Moore, and at the end of June 1932, Moore told Blair that was prepared to publish A Scullion's Diary for a £40 advance, through his recently founded publishing house,, which was an outlet for radical and socialist works. At the end of the summer term in 1932, Blair returned to Southwold, where his parents had used a legacy to buy their own home. Blair and his sister Avril spent the holidays making the house habitable while he also worked on Burmese Days. He was also spending time with Eleanor Jacques, but her attachment to Dennis Collings remained an obstacle to his hopes of a more serious relationship. The pen name 'George Orwell' was inspired by the in the English county of Suffolk 'Clink', an essay describing his failed attempt to get sent to prison, appeared in the August 1932 number of Adelphi.

He returned to teaching at Hayes and prepared for the publication of his book, now known as Down and Out in Paris and London. He wished to publish under a different name to avoid any embarrassment to his family over his time as a 'tramp'.

In a letter to Moore (dated 15 November 1932), he left the choice of pseudonym to Moore and to Gollancz. Four days later, he wrote to Moore, suggesting the pseudonyms P. Burton (a name he used when tramping), Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways.

He finally adopted the George Orwell because, as he told Eleanor Jacques, 'It is a good round English name.' Down and Out in Paris and London was published on 9 January 1933, as Orwell continued to work on Burmese Days. Down and Out was modestly successful and was next published by in New York. In mid-1933 Blair left Hawthorns to become a teacher at, in,. This was a much larger establishment with 200 pupils and a full complement of staff. He acquired a motorcycle and took trips through the surrounding countryside.

On one of these expeditions he became soaked and caught a chill that developed into pneumonia. He was taken to Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, where for a time his life was believed to be in danger. When he was discharged in January 1934, he returned to Southwold to convalesce and, supported by his parents, never returned to teaching. He was disappointed when Gollancz turned down Burmese Days, mainly on the grounds of potential suits for libel, but Harper were prepared to publish it in the United States. Meanwhile, Blair started work on the novel, drawing upon his life as a teacher and on life in Southwold.

Eleanor Jacques was now married and had gone to Singapore and Brenda Salkield had left for Ireland, so Blair was relatively isolated in Southwold – working on the, walking alone and spending time with his father. Eventually in October, after sending A Clergyman's Daughter to Moore, he left for London to take a job that had been found for him by his aunt Nellie Limouzin. Hampstead [ ]. Orwell's former home at 77 Parliament Hill,, London This job was as a part-time assistant in Booklovers' Corner, a second-hand bookshop in Hampstead run by Francis and Myfanwy Westrope, who were friends of Nellie Limouzin in the movement. The Westropes were friendly and provided him with comfortable accommodation at Warwick Mansions, Pond Street.

He was sharing the job with, who also lived with the Westropes. Blair worked at the shop in the afternoons and had his mornings free to write and his evenings free to socialise. These experiences provided background for the novel (1936). As well as the various guests of the Westropes, he was able to enjoy the company of Richard Rees and the Adelphi writers and Mabel Fierz.

The Westropes and Kimche were members of the, although at this time Blair was not seriously politically active. He was writing for the Adelphi and preparing A Clergyman's Daughter and Burmese Days for publication. At the beginning of 1935 he had to move out of Warwick Mansions, and Mabel Fierz found him a flat in Parliament Hill.

A Clergyman's Daughter was published on 11 March 1935. In early 1935 Blair met his future wife, when his landlady, Rosalind Obermeyer, who was studying for a master's degree in psychology at, invited some of her fellow students to a party. One of these students, Elizaveta Fen, a biographer and future translator of, recalled Orwell and his friend 'draped' at the fireplace, looking, she thought, 'moth-eaten and prematurely aged.' Around this time, Blair had started to write reviews for the. Orwell's time as a bookseller is commemorated with this plaque in Hampstead In June, Burmese Days was published and Cyril Connolly's review in the New Statesman prompted Orwell (as he then became known) to re-establish contact with his old friend. In August, he moved into a flat in, which he shared with Michael Sayers and.

The relationship was sometimes awkward and Orwell and Heppenstall even came to blows, though they remained friends and later worked together on BBC broadcasts. Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the. By October 1935 his flatmates had moved out and he was struggling to pay the rent on his own. He remained until the end of January 1936, when he stopped working at Booklovers' Corner. The Road to Wigan Pier [ ]. Main article: At this time, Victor Gollancz suggested Orwell spend a short time investigating social conditions in economically depressed. Two years earlier had written about England north of the, sparking an interest in reportage.

The depression had also introduced a number of working-class writers from the North of England to the reading public. On 31 January 1936, Orwell set out by public transport and on foot, reaching via, Stafford, the and. Arriving in Manchester after the banks had closed, he had to stay in a common lodging-house.

The next day he picked up a list of contacts sent by Richard Rees. One of these, the trade union official Frank Meade, suggested, where Orwell spent February staying in dirty lodgings over a shop. At Wigan, he visited many homes to see how people lived, took detailed notes of housing conditions and wages earned, went down, and used the to consult public health records and reports on working conditions in mines. During this time, he was distracted by concerns about style and possible libel in Keep the Aspidistra Flying. He made a quick visit to and during March, stayed in south Yorkshire, spending time in and.

As well as visiting mines, including, and observing social conditions, he attended meetings of the Communist Party and of – 'his speech the usual claptrap – The blame for everything was put upon mysterious international gangs of Jews' – where he saw the tactics of the – 'one is liable to get both a hammering and a fine for asking a question which Mosley finds it difficult to answer.' He also made visits to his sister at, during which he visited the at, where he was 'chiefly impressed by a pair of 's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up at the sides.' No 2 Kits Lane,. Orwell's residence c. 1936–1940 The result of his journeys through the north was, published by Gollancz for the in 1937.

The first half of the book documents his social investigations of and, including an evocative description of working life in the coal mines. The second half is a long essay on his upbringing and the development of his political conscience, which includes an argument for Socialism (although he goes to lengths to balance the concerns and goals of Socialism with the barriers it faced from the movement's own advocates at the time, such as 'priggish' and 'dull' Socialist intellectuals, and 'proletarian' Socialists with little grasp of the actual ideology). Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain. Orwell needed somewhere he could concentrate on writing his book, and once again help was provided by Aunt Nellie, who was living at in a very small 16th-century cottage called the 'Stores'.

Wallington was a tiny village 35 miles north of London, and the cottage had almost no modern facilities. Orwell took over the tenancy and moved in on 2 April 1936. He started work on The Road to Wigan Pier by the end of April, but also spent hours working on the garden and testing the possibility of reopening the Stores as a village shop. Keep the Aspidistra Flying was published by Gollancz on 20 April 1936.

On 4 August Orwell gave a talk at the Adelphi Summer School held at, entitled An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas; others who spoke at the school included,, and. Orwell's research for The Road to Wigan Pier led to him being placed under surveillance by the from 1936, for 12 years, until one year before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell married on 9 June 1936. Shortly afterwards, the political crisis began in Spain and Orwell followed developments there closely.

At the end of the year, concerned by 's military uprising, (supported by, and local groups such as ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the on. Under the erroneous impression that he needed papers from some left-wing organisation to cross the frontier, on 's recommendation he applied unsuccessfully to, leader of the. Pollitt was suspicious of Orwell's political reliability; he asked him whether he would undertake to join the and advised him to get a safe-conduct from the Spanish Embassy in Paris. Not wishing to commit himself until he had seen the situation in situ, Orwell instead used his Independent Labour Party contacts to get a letter of introduction to in Barcelona. The Spanish Civil War [ ].

Laurence O'Shaughnessy's former home, the large house on the corner, 24 Crooms Hill,, London Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O'Shaughnessy home at Greenwich. He found his views on the Spanish Civil War out of favour.

Rejected two of his works and Gollancz was equally cautious. At the same time, the communist was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, taking out of context Orwell writing that 'the working classes smell'; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this. Orwell was also able to find a more sympathetic publisher for his views in of Secker & Warburg. Orwell returned to Wallington, which he found in disarray after his absence. He acquired goats, a rooster he called 'Henry Ford', and a poodle puppy he called 'Marx' and settled down to animal husbandry and writing Homage to Catalonia. There were thoughts of going to India to work on the Pioneer, a newspaper in, but by March 1938 Orwell's health had deteriorated. He was admitted to Preston Hall Sanatorium at, a hospital for ex-servicemen to which his brother-in-law Laurence O'Shaughnessy was attached.

He was thought initially to be suffering from and stayed in the sanatorium until September. A stream of visitors came to see him, including Common, Heppenstall, Plowman and Cyril Connolly. Connolly brought with him, a cause of some embarrassment as Orwell had referred to Spender as a 'pansy friend' some time earlier. Homage to Catalonia was published by Secker & Warburg and was a commercial flop.

In the latter part of his stay at the clinic, Orwell was able to go for walks in the countryside and study nature. The novelist secretly funded a trip to for half a year for Orwell to avoid the English winter and recover his health. The Orwells set out in September 1938 via and to avoid and arrived.

They rented a villa on the road to and during that time Orwell wrote. They arrived back in England on 30 March 1939 and Coming Up for Air was published in June. Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died. Second World War and Animal Farm [ ] At the outbreak of the, Orwell's wife Eileen started working in the Censorship Department of the in central London, staying during the week with her family in. Orwell also submitted his name to the Central Register for war work, but nothing transpired. 'They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs', Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer. He returned to Wallington, and in late 1939 he wrote material for his first collection of essays,.

For the next year he was occupied writing reviews for plays, films and books for, and New Adelphi. On 29 March 1940 his long association with began with a review of a sergeant's account of 's. At the beginning of 1940, the first edition of Connolly's appeared, and this provided a new outlet for Orwell's work as well as new literary contacts. In May the Orwells took lease of a flat in London at Dorset Chambers, Chagford Street,.

It was the time of the and the death in France of Eileen's brother Lawrence caused her considerable grief and long-term depression. Throughout this period Orwell kept a wartime diary. Orwell was declared 'unfit for any kind of military service' by the Medical Board in June, but soon afterwards found an opportunity to become involved in war activities by joining the. He shared 's socialist vision for the Home Guard as a revolutionary People's Militia. His lecture notes for instructing platoon members include advice on street fighting, field fortifications, and the use of of various kinds.

Sergeant Orwell managed to recruit to his unit. During the he used to spend weekends with Warburg and his new friend,, at Warburg's house. At Wallington he worked on ' and in London wrote reviews for various periodicals. Visiting Eileen's family in Greenwich brought him face-to-face with the effects of on East London.

In mid-1940, Warburg, Fyvel and Orwell planned. Eleven volumes eventually appeared, of which Orwell's, published on 19 February 1941, was the first.

Early in 1941 he started writing for the American which linked Orwell with, like him anti-Stalinist, but committed to staying on the Left, and contributed to Gollancz anthology The Betrayal of the Left, written in the light of the (although Orwell referred to it as the Russo-German Pact and the Hitler-Stalin Pact ). He also applied unsuccessfully for a job at the. Meanwhile, he was still writing reviews of books and plays and at this time met the novelist. He also took part in a few radio broadcasts for the Eastern Service of the BBC. In March the Orwells moved to a seventh-floor flat at Langford Court,, while at Wallington Orwell was ' by planting potatoes.

One could not have a better example of the moral and emotional shallowness of our time, than the fact that we are now all more or less pro Stalin. This disgusting murderer is temporarily on our side, and so the purges, etc., are suddenly forgotten.

— George Orwell, in his war-time diary, 3 July 1941 In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained 'war work' when he was taken on full-time by the 's Eastern Service. He supervised cultural broadcasts to India to counter propaganda from Nazi Germany designed to undermine Imperial links. This was Orwell's first experience of the rigid conformity of life in an office, and it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes with contributions from,,,,, and among others. At the end of August he had a dinner with which degenerated into a row because Wells had taken offence at observations Orwell made about him in a Horizon article. In October Orwell had a bout of bronchitis and the illness recurred frequently.

Was looking for a provocative contributor for and invited Orwell to write for him – the first article appearing in March 1942. In early 1942 Eileen changed jobs to work at the and in mid-1942 the Orwells moved to a larger flat, a ground floor and basement, 10a Mortimer Crescent in / – 'the kind of lower-middle-class ambience that Orwell thought was London at its best.' Around the same time Orwell's mother and sister Avril, who had found work in a factory behind, moved into a flat close to George and Eileen. Orwell at the BBC in 1941.

Despite having spoken on many broadcasts, no recordings of Orwell's voice are known to survive. At the BBC, Orwell introduced Voice, a literary programme for his Indian broadcasts, and by now was leading an active social life with literary friends, particularly on the political left. Late in 1942, he started writing regularly for the left-wing weekly: 306: 441 directed by MPs and. In March 1943 Orwell's mother died and around the same time he told Moore he was starting work on a new book, which turned out to be.

In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.: 352 His resignation followed a report confirming his fears that few Indians listened to the broadcasts, but he was also keen to concentrate on writing Animal Farm. Just six days before his last day of service, on 24 November 1943, his adaptation of the, 's was broadcast.

It was a genre in which he was greatly interested and which appeared on Animal Farm 's title-page. At this time he also resigned from the Home Guard on medical grounds.

In November 1943, Orwell was appointed literary editor at Tribune, where his assistant was his old friend. Orwell was on staff until early 1945, writing over 80 book reviews and on 3 December 1943 started his regular personal column, ', usually addressing three or four subjects in each. He was still writing reviews for other magazines, including Partisan Review, Horizon, and the New York and becoming a respected pundit among left-wing circles but also a close friend of people on the right such as Powell, Astor and. By April 1944 Animal Farm was ready for publication.

Gollancz refused to publish it, considering it an attack on the Soviet regime which was a crucial ally in the war. A similar fate was met from other publishers (including at ) until agreed to take it. In May the Orwells had the opportunity to adopt a child, thanks to the contacts of Eileen's sister Gwen O'Shaughnessy, then a doctor in. In June a struck Mortimer Crescent and the Orwells had to find somewhere else to live. Orwell had to scrabble around in the rubble for his collection of books, which he had finally managed to transfer from Wallington, carting them away in a wheelbarrow.

Another bombshell was Cape's reversal of his plan to publish Animal Farm. The decision followed his personal visit to, an official at the. Smollett was later identified as a Soviet agent.

The Orwells spent some time in the North East, near, dealing with matters in the adoption of a boy whom they named Richard Horatio Blair. By September 1944 they had set up home in, at 27b Square. Baby Richard joined them there, and Eileen gave up her work at the Ministry of Food to look after her family. Had agreed to publish Animal Farm, planned for the following March, although it did not appear in print until August 1945. By February 1945 David Astor had invited Orwell to become a war correspondent for the Observer. Orwell had been looking for the opportunity throughout the war, but his failed medical reports prevented him from being allowed anywhere near action.

He went to Paris after the liberation of France and to Cologne once it had been occupied by the Allies. It was while he was there that Eileen went into hospital for a and died under anaesthetic on 29 March 1945. She had not given Orwell much notice about this operation because of worries about the cost and because she expected to make a speedy recovery. Orwell returned home for a while and then went back to Europe. He returned finally to London to cover the at the beginning of July.: A Fairy Story was published in Britain on 17 August 1945, and a year later in the US, on 26 August 1946. Jura and Nineteen Eighty-Four [ ] Animal Farm had particular resonance in the post-war climate and its worldwide success made Orwell a sought-after figure. For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and – with writing his best-known work,, which was published in 1949.

Barnhill on the Isle of off the west coast of Scotland In the year following Eileen's death he published around 130 articles and a selection of his, while remaining active in various political lobbying campaigns. He employed a housekeeper, Susan Watson, to look after his adopted son at the flat, which visitors now described as 'bleak'. In September he spent a fortnight on the island of in the and saw it as a place to escape from the hassle of London literary life.

David Astor was instrumental in arranging a place for Orwell on Jura. Astor's family owned Scottish estates in the area and a fellow Old Etonian Robin Fletcher had a property on the island. In late 1945 and early 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan (who was later to become 's sister-in-law), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office. Orwell suffered a tubercular haemorrhage in February 1946 but disguised his illness. In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on 'British Cookery', complete with recipes, commissioned by the.

Given the post-war shortages, both parties agreed not to publish it. His sister Marjorie died of kidney disease in May and shortly after, on 22 May 1946, Orwell set off to live on the Isle of Jura. Was an abandoned farmhouse with outbuildings near the northern end of the island, situated at the end of a five-mile (8 km), heavily rutted track from Ardlussa, where the owners lived.

Conditions at the farmhouse were primitive but the natural history and the challenge of improving the place appealed to Orwell. His sister Avril accompanied him there and young novelist made up the party. In July Susan Watson arrived with Orwell's son Richard. Tensions developed and Potts departed after one of his manuscripts was used to light the fire. Orwell meanwhile set to work on.

Later Susan Watson's boyfriend arrived. A fan of Orwell since school days, he found the reality very different, with Orwell hostile and disagreeable probably because of Holbrook's membership of the Communist Party. Susan Watson could no longer stand being with Avril and she and her boyfriend left. Orwell returned to London in late 1946 and picked up his literary journalism again.

Now a well-known writer, he was swamped with work. Apart from a visit to Jura in the new year he stayed in London for and with such a national shortage of fuel that he burnt his furniture and his child's toys. The heavy smog in the days before the did little to help his health about which he was reticent, keeping clear of medical attention. Meanwhile, he had to cope with rival claims of publishers Gollancz and Warburg for publishing rights. About this time he co-edited a collection titled British Pamphleteers with. As a result of the success of Animal Farm, Orwell was expecting a large bill from the Inland Revenue and he contacted a firm of accountants of which the senior partner was Jack Harrison. The firm advised Orwell to establish a company to own his copyright and to receive his royalties and set up a 'service agreement' so that he could draw a salary.

Such a company 'George Orwell Productions Ltd' (GOP Ltd) was set up on 12 September 1947 although the service agreement was not then put into effect. Jack Harrison left the details at this stage to junior colleagues. Orwell left London for Jura on 10 April 1947. In July he ended the lease on the Wallington cottage. Back on Jura he worked on Nineteen Eighty-Four and made good progress. During that time his sister's family visited, and Orwell led a disastrous boating expedition, on 19 August, which nearly led to loss of life whilst trying to cross the notorious gulf of and gave him a soaking which was not good for his health. In December a chest specialist was summoned from Glasgow who pronounced Orwell seriously ill and a week before Christmas 1947 he was in in East Kilbride, then a small village in the countryside, on the outskirts of Glasgow.

Was diagnosed and the request for permission to import to treat Orwell went as far as, then Minister of Health. Helped with supply and payment and Orwell began his course of streptomycin on 19 or 20 February 1948. By the end of July 1948 Orwell was able to return to Jura and by December he had finished the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four. In January 1949, in a very weak condition, he set off for a sanatorium at, escorted by Richard Rees. The sanatorium at Cranham consisted of a series of small wooden chalets or huts in a remote part of the near.

Visitors were shocked by Orwell's appearance and concerned by the short-comings and ineffectiveness of the treatment. Friends were worried about his finances, but by now he was comparatively well-off. He was writing to many of his friends, including Jacintha Buddicom, who had 'rediscovered' him, and in March 1949, was visited by Celia Kirwan. Kirwan had just started working for a unit, the, set up by the government to publish anti-communist propaganda, and Orwell gave her a list of people he considered to be unsuitable as IRD authors because of their pro-communist leanings., not published until 2003, consisted mainly of writers but also included actors and Labour MPs.

Orwell received more streptomycin treatment and improved slightly. In June 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four was published to immediate critical and popular acclaim. Final months and death [ ]. In London where Orwell died Orwell's health had continued to decline since the diagnosis of in December 1947.

In mid-1949, he courted, and they announced their engagement in September, shortly before he was removed to in London. Sonia took charge of Orwell's affairs and attended him diligently in the hospital, causing concern to some old friends such as Muggeridge. In September 1949, Orwell invited his accountant Harrison to visit him in hospital, and Harrison claimed that Orwell then asked him to become director of GOP Ltd and to manage the company, but there was no independent witness. Orwell's wedding took place in the hospital room on 13 October 1949, with David Astor as best man. Orwell was in decline and visited by an assortment of visitors including Muggeridge, Connolly,, Stephen Spender,, Paul Potts, Anthony Powell, and his Eton tutor Anthony Gow. Plans to go to the were mooted. Further meetings were held with his accountant, at which Harrison and Mr and Mrs Blair were confirmed as directors of the company, and at which Harrison claimed that the 'service agreement' was executed, giving copyright to the company.

Orwell's health was in decline again by Christmas. On the evening of 20 January 1950, Potts visited Orwell and slipped away on finding him asleep. Jack Harrison visited later and claimed that Orwell gave him 25% of the company.

Early on the morning of 21 January, an artery burst in Orwell's lungs, killing him at age 46. Orwell had requested to be buried in accordance with the Anglican rite in the graveyard of the closest church to wherever he happened to die. The graveyards in central London had no space, and fearing that he might have to be cremated against his wishes, his widow appealed to his friends to see whether any of them knew of a church with space in its graveyard. 'By putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk, whereas one is likely to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round' – One of Orwell's eleven rules for making tea from his essay ', appearing in the, 12 January 1946. Orwell was a heavy smoker, who rolled his own cigarettes from strong, despite his bronchial condition. His penchant for the rugged life often took him to cold and damp situations, both in the long term, as in Catalonia and Jura, and short term, for example, motorcycling in the rain and suffering a shipwreck.

Described by The Economist as 'perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of ', Orwell considered, association football, the, strong tea, cut price chocolate, the movies, and radio among the chief comforts for the working class. Orwell enjoyed strong tea – he had 's tea brought to him in Catalonia. His 1946 essay, ', appeared in the London Evening Standard article on how to, with Orwell writing, 'tea is one of the mainstays of civilisation in this country and causes violent disputes over how it should be made', with the main issue being whether to put tea in the cup first and add the milk afterward, or the other way round, on which he states, 'in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject'. He appreciated English beer, taken regularly and moderately, despised drinkers of and wrote about an imagined, ideal in his 1946 English Standard article, '. Not as particular about food, he enjoyed the wartime 'Victory Pie' and extolled canteen food at the.

He preferred traditional English dishes, such as and. His 1945 essay, 'In Defence of English Cooking', included,, various and Oxford. Reports of his days refer to the cosy afternoon tea table.

His dress sense was unpredictable and usually casual. In Southwold, he had the best cloth from the local tailor but was equally happy in his tramping outfit. His attire in the Spanish Civil War, along with his size-12 boots, was a source of amusement.

David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress 'in Bohemian fashion' revealed that the author was 'a Communist'. Orwell's confusing approach to matters of social decorum – on the one hand expecting a working-class guest to dress for dinner, and on the other, slurping tea out of a saucer at the BBC canteen – helped stoke his reputation as an English eccentric. Views on homosexuality [ ] Orwell was openly, at a time when such prejudice was common.

Speaking at the 2003 George Orwell Centenary Conference, said: 'Of course he was homophobic. That has nothing to do with his relations with his homosexual friends.

Certainly, he had a negative attitude and a certain kind of anxiety, a denigrating attitude towards homosexuality. That is definitely the case. I think his writing reflects that quite fully.' Orwell used the homophobic epithets 'nancy' and 'pansy', notably in his expressions of contempt for what he called the 'pansy Left', and 'nancy poets', i.e. Left-wing homosexual or bisexual writers and intellectuals such as and. The protagonist of Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Gordon Comstock, conducts an internal critique of his customers when working in a bookshop, and there is an extended passage of several pages in which he concentrates on a homosexual male customer, and sneers at him for his 'nancy' characteristics, including a lisp, which he identifies in detail, with some disgust.

Thomas S Veale, in The Banality of Virtue: A Multifaceted view of George Orwell as champion of the common man, refers to Orwell's 'homophobia most probably based on the perceived weakness of homosexuals and their preferences' betrayal of the natural order'. Stephen Spender, however, 'thought Orwell's occasional homophobic outbursts were part of his rebellion against the public school'. Biographies of Orwell [ ] Orwell's will requested that no biography of him be written, and his widow Sonia Brownell repelled every attempt by those who tried to persuade her to let them write about him. Various recollections and interpretations were published in the 1950s and '60s, but Sonia saw the 1968 Collected Works as the record of his life.

She did appoint as official biographer, but later biographers have seen this as deliberate spoiling as Muggeridge eventually gave up the work. In 1972, two American authors, Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, produced The Unknown Orwell, an unauthorised account of his early years that lacked any support or contribution from Sonia Brownell.

Sonia Brownell then commissioned, a professor of politics at the, to complete a biography and asked Orwell's friends to co-operate. Crick collated a considerable amount of material in his work, which was published in 1980, but his questioning of the factual accuracy of Orwell's first-person writings led to conflict with Brownell, and she tried to suppress the book. Crick concentrated on the facts of Orwell's life rather than his character, and presented primarily a political perspective on Orwell's life and work. After Sonia Brownell's death, other works on Orwell were published in the 1980s, with 1984 being a particularly fruitful year for Orwelliana. These included collections of reminiscences by Coppard and Crick and Stephen Wadhams.

In 1991,, an American professor of literature, published a biography. More concerned with the literary nature of Orwell's work, he sought explanations for Orwell's character and treated his first-person writings as autobiographical.

Shelden introduced new information that sought to build on Crick's work. Shelden speculated that Orwell possessed an obsessive belief in his failure and inadequacy. 's publication of the Complete Works of George Orwell, completed in 2000, made most of the Orwell Archive accessible to the public. Jeffrey Meyers, a prolific American biographer, was first to take advantage of this and published a book in 2001 that investigated the darker side of Orwell and questioned his saintly image. (released in the UK as Orwell's Victory) was published by in 2002. In 2003, the centenary of Orwell's birth resulted in biographies by Gordon Bowker and, both academics and writers in the United Kingdom. Taylor notes the stage management which surrounds much of Orwell's behaviour, and Bowker highlights the essential sense of decency which he considers to have been Orwell's main motivation.

Ancestry [ ] Ancestors of George Orwell. • Stansky and Abrahams suggested that Ida Blair move to England in 1907, based on information given by her daughter Avril, talking about a time before she was born. This is contrasted by Ida Blair's 1905, as well as a photograph of Eric, aged three, in an English suburban garden. The earlier date coincides with a difficult posting for Blair senior, and the need to start their daughter Marjorie (then six years old) in an English education. • The conventional view, based on Geoffrey Gorer's recollections, is of a specific commission with a £500 advance. Taylor argues that Orwell's subsequent life does not suggest he received such a large advance, Gollancz was not known to pay large sums to relatively unknown authors, and Gollancz took little proprietorial interest in progress. • The author states that evidence discovered at the National Historical Archives in Madrid in 1989 of a security police report to the Tribunal for Espionage and High Treason described Eric Blair and his wife Eileen Blair, as 'known Trotskyists' and as 'linking agents of the ILP and the POUM'.

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