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Apr 25, 2002 · There can be no doubt that Sonia Orwell had an interesting life; vivid and complicated in her early years, drunkenly angry and anxious towards the end, but with friends who cared enough about her to put up with her and even, decades later, to write a biography designed, as Hilary Spurling’s explicitly is, to stem ‘the tide of venom that ...
May 5, 2004 · In her preface of 'The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell' Hilary Spurling tells us that Sonia, the widow of George Orwell, was depicted as "heartless, greedy and manipulative" in Michael Shelden's 'Orwell. The Authorised Biography' - a portrayal which Ms Spurling felt was based on ignorance, misconception and distortion.
- Hilary Spurling
Dec 10, 2020 · "The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend Hilary Spurling, herself an acclaimed biographer, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life."
Dec 10, 2020 · Yet, Sonia Brownell Orwell accomplished much more for the literature and culture of the English-speaking world than all but a few creative writers or literary scholars. First of course by preserving Orwell’s works, but also by encouraging major writers and inspiring some of their best characters, as well as discovering and commissioning new ...
Sonia Orwell is the author of My Country Right or Left (4.28 avg rating, 599 ratings, 45 reviews, published 1968), An Age Like This (4.32 avg rating, 386...
Aug 17, 2002 · THE GIRL FROM THE FICTION DEPARTMENT: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. By Hilary Spurling. Hamish Hamilton, 193pp, $29.95. Frieda Lawrence, survivor of a stormy marriage to D.H. Lawrence, spoke for ...
