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  1. Aug 16, 2023 · A previous version of this article misidentified the woman in the top photo as George Orwells first wife, Eileen. She is his second wife, Sonia. The photo of Sonia Orwell has been...

  2. May 19, 2002 · Best remembered for having married George Orwell on his death-bed, and as the inspiration for the fearless, bossy Julia in 1984 , Sonia Orwell remains, more than 20 years after her death, a...

  3. Jul 15, 2002 · Sonia Brownell, a beautiful young woman, married Orwell, a dying middle-aged man, on his deathbed in University College hospital, London. The marriage was never consummated. Why did she do it?

  4. May 25, 2002 · This short book is a work of rescue on two counts. Sonia Orwell, the widow for 30 years of George Orwell, is not widely known. She has appeared in a secondary role in many biographies,...

  5. 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...

  6. Jan 28, 2016 · The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. Hilary Spurling. Penguin UK, Jan 28, 2016 - Biography & Autobiography - 208 pages. Absorbing and provocative, a biography of...

  7. Feb 18, 2020 · Be in the room with exclusive access to the original letters, photographs and objects that connect George Orwell and Sonia Brownell. On 13th October 1949, Sonia Brownell and George Orwell were married in University College Hospital, where Orwell was being treated for tuberculosis.

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