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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...
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...
Aug 16, 2023 · 7 min. correction. A previous version of this article misidentified the woman in the top photo as George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen. She is his second wife, Sonia. The photo of Sonia...
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...
Mar 10, 2020 · Photograph: © Sonia Brownell Orwell. Book of the day Biography books. This article is more than 4 years old. Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp – review. This life of George...
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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