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Eileen Maud Blair (née O'Shaughnessy, 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945) was the first wife of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). During World War II , she worked for the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information in London and the Ministry of Food.
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Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936 and became Eileen Blair (George Orwell’s real name was, rather prosaically, Eric Blair). But she was virtually missing from Orwell’s own, often ...
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Mar 4, 2020 · Discovering the life of Eileen Blair, the “black hole at the centre of Orwell studies”. By Frances Wilson. Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images. George Orwell’s enigmatic first wife was, it appears, an exact inversion of his second wife.
Eileen Blair, George Orwell’s first wife, is the subject of this welcome and assiduously researched biography by Sylvia Topp. Eileen married Orwell in 1936 when he was a virtual unknown and, until her death in 1945 at the age of just thirty-nine, shared with him a life that was lived primarily on the unreliable income from his writing.
Jun 22, 2019 · Eileen is not obvious in some surviving photos of the celebrations, but she was well aware of the significance of the anniversary. Looking fifty years ahead, to the school’s one-hundredth anniversary, she wrote a poem titled ‘End of the Century, 1984’, which was published in the Sunderland High School magazine in 1934, the year before she ...
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Aug 11, 2023 · An existential crisis, precipitated by a perimenopausal meltdown during a soulless shopping expedition in her local mall, sent the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author seeking refuge in a ...
