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Sonia Mary Brownell (25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980), better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second wife of writer George Orwell. Sonia is believed to be the model for Julia, the heroine of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Sonia worked with the Information Research Department (IRD), a propaganda department of the British Foreign Office, which helped ...
Jun 15, 2003 · A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. By Hilary Spurling. Illustrated. 193 pp. New York: Counterpoint. $24. IN a life of brilliant passions, Sonia Brownell's 14-week marriage to George Orwell stands...
Jul 6, 2003 · Sonia often said she wanted to marry a great man -- and in Orwell, though gaunt, pallid and near death, she had found him. The marriage lasted a little more than three months; Orwell never...
Aug 16, 2023 · She is his second wife, Sonia. The photo of Sonia Orwell has been removed from this version as it is no longer relevant to the article. As a child, I was taken to see an animated film version...
Mar 4, 2020 · George Orwell’s enigmatic first wife was, it appears, an exact inversion of his second wife. Eileen O’Shaugh-nessy married an unknown writer and then worked herself to death to ensure his fame, while Sonia Brownell married a dying writer in order to ensure her own fame. The names say it all: Orwell was christened Eric Blair and Eileen ...
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Jun 8, 2003 · A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. By Hilary Spurling. Counterpoint. 194 pp. $24. Praising The Girl from the Fiction Department is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to praise first about this...
Sep 26, 2017 · Plante writes of Sonia Orwell: “I was in love with the unhappiness in her, and yet reassured that, no matter what I did, what I felt it my duty to do, to lessen that unhappiness, I couldn’t:...