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Jacintha Laura May Buddicom (10 May 1901 – 4 November 1993) was an English poet and a childhood friend of George Orwell (Eric Blair). She met Blair in 1914 and they developed a shared interest in poetry, but she lost touch with him after he departed for Burma in 1922, and later she disputed Blair's writings about his own childhood.
Jun 25, 2015 · How a childhood romance between Eric Blair (George Orwell) and Jacintha Buddicom was ruined by a violent assault and a secret pregnancy. Learn about their tragic story and its impact on Orwell's fiction.
Eric & Us is a 1974 memoir by Jacintha Buddicom recalling her childhood friendship with Eric Blair, the real name of author George Orwell. Buddicom first met Blair when he was eleven and he became very close to her family.
The Orwell Society is a website dedicated to the life and works of George Orwell. It features articles about Jacintha Buddicom, Orwell's wife and muse, and her role in his writing and personal life.
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Apr 30, 2008 · Decades earlier, Jacintha Buddicom, whom Orwell befriended when he was young Eric Blair, had written a memoir called Eric & Us in which she recalled with evident fondness their shared friendship in the 1920s. Now one of her cousins, Dione Venables, claimed that previously unstudied family letters revealed that he had pounced on Buddicom ...
Aug 19, 2013 · Perhaps the most intriguing letter here is one written nearly a quarter-century after Orwell’s death by Jacintha Buddicom, a childhood playmate and love interest of the man she knew as Eric ...
Nov 21, 2023 · On the Huesca Front, in what biographer D.J. Taylor calls “one of the most dangerous episodes of his military career,” which Orwell recounts in Homage to Catalonia, he attacked a group of fascists. Fighters for Franco were approaching his position. He tossed a bomb. He continues: I flung it and threw myself on my face.
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