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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses P. D. James
The film adapted from the novel by Alfonso Cuarón , released in Britain in September 2006, was judged by a reviewer to have softened the blow of James's book just a little, even though it...
Material Conditions of Writing Catherine Carswell
During World War Two she broadcast on topics like the evacuation of children from the cities, managing on food rations, and the valuable social contact struck up between neighbours in unpropitious and stressful circumstances. Late...
Occupation Una Marson
UM was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand , William Empson , and T. S. Eliot on the BBC 's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell) .
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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politics W. H. Auden
He became a strongly convinced socialist, though he never, unlike several of his friends, joined the Communist Party. In January 1937 he set out for Spain to offer help—ambulance-driving rather than fighting—to the Republican side...
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
After this story (a near-declaration of love between a married woman and an old friend, which comes to nothing)
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
124
she soon succeeded in placing two more, one of them with Orwell 's Tribune (which...
Reception Hannah Arendt
On the whole Arendt's account of the rise of Nazism met with more general assent in the West than her account of the rise of Stalinism. Her leaving out the issue of the oppression of...
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...
Textual Features Christine Brooke-Rose
Here CBR 's interest tips strongly away from content towards form, though she acknowledges that an attachment to form that excludes all else is totally withering.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press.
15
For the first time she uses a technique...
Textual Features Stevie Smith
The title is a parody of a line from Orwell 's Animal Farm.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
227
Textual Features Marghanita Laski
Through Rachel's conversations with the soldiers, it emerges that the Americans and Russians are vying for control over the offshore island, and the captain suspects that Russians have reached the family before him. ML uses...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Diana Athill
Part one is the story of the publishing houses that DA worked with. She begins by explaining that business figures (which someone had mentioned as the key to an interesting book about publishing) would not...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
This volume contains Jameson's previously-written polemics City to Let—Berlin 1932, The Youngest Brother, The Defence of Freedom, and Documents.
Labon, Joanna. “Tracing Storm Jameson”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 33-47.
36, 39-40
This last, which had appeared in Fact in July...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Q. D. Leavis
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...

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