“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Sonia Orwell
Standard Name: Orwell, Sonia
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Jourdain had published a translation of Horace
's Odes in 1904 and the important History of English Secular Embroidery in 1910: in the latter year she also published almost sixty articles on a wide variety... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Orwell | During that same year GO
proposed marriage to Sonia Brownell
, editorial assistant on Horizon, who refused him. She accepted when he proposed again only months before his death, and they were married on... |
| Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | After Jourdain's death, ICB
's circle of friends included George Furlong
, Rex Brandreth
, Barbara
and Walter Robinson
, Soame Jenyns
, Elizabeth Taylor
, Sonia Orwell
(widow of the writer George Orwell), Australian-born... |
| Textual Production | George Orwell | Sonia Orwell
and Ian Angus
edited a four-volume Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, which appeared in a Penguin
paperback in 1970. Other editions have followed. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Timeline
1962
Publisher John Calder
and writer's widow Sonia Orwell
together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.
Texts
Orwell, George. My Country Right or Left 1940-1943. Editors Orwell, Sonia and Ian Angus, Penguin Books, 1970.