Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
George Orwell
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Standard Name: Orwell, George
Used Form: Eric Blair
Through the mid part of the twentieth century GO
was prominent as a reporter on the social and political scene: he was one of those whose reporting helped to shape opinion and whose accounts now seem vital to understanding those times. Several of his essays have canonical status as much on historical as literary grounds. He published novels as well as non-fiction, but his two most famous novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are continuous in aim and effect with his polemical writing. The impact of these two novels was immediately felt and is still being felt in the twenty-first century.
Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope
, Hardy
, Gissing
, Forster
, Orwell
, and Aldous Huxley
; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Deborah Levy
This book has four sections, each titled from a reason for writing, Political Purpose, Historical Impulse, Sheer Egoism, and Aesthetic Enthusiasm. The first and last describe a period of near-breakdown that...
Textual Features
Rose Macaulay
The book concerns the illicit love of Kitty Grammont for her boss at the Ministry of Brains, Nicholas Chester, who is not allowed to marry under the eugenics laws in force in this society of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Hilary Mantel
Vacant Possession takes up the story ten years later, in the significantly Orwellian
year of 1984, and is described by its author as a state-of-the-nation novel.
Edemariam, Aida. “Interview with Hilary Mantel”. The Guardian, pp. 28-9.
In April 1946, UM
's English friend Stella Mead
noticed that Marson was not doing well psychologically, and arranged for the writer Clare McFarlane
to take her back to Jamaica with him. Suffering from depression...
Friends, Associates
Ruth Pitter
Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP
had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil
brought her...
politics
Eleanor Rathbone
In Homage to Catalonia (1952), George Orwell
accused the duchess in particular of a naïveté born of elite status. Orwell claimed that she did not really believe in the existence of anything outside of the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Carol Rumens
Several poems delight in the history of spots around nineteenth-century London; others are sonnets; others combine satire with their piercing social observation, such as the dystopian, Orwell
-inspired 2084.
Literary responses
Edith Sitwell
To George Orwell
, a socially-committed writer of a later generation, this book showed a completely frivolous emphasis on technique, treating literature as a sort of embroidery, almost as though words did not have meanings...
