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Apr 24, 2024 · Sonia Orwell (née Brownell) was an enthusiastic advocate of the arts and literature and was an important figure on the London literary scene. She was a renowned beauty. She married the English novelist, George Orwell (1903-1950), shortly before his premature death from tuberculosis. Sonia Orwell was part of Bacon’s circle from the 1950s and ...
Jan 28, 2016 · Sonia Brownell was model for Julia in Orwell's most famous novel, she was fifteen years younger than her husband, and after his death she was hounded and pilloried as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of the literary legacy. But the truth about Sonia was altogether different.Beautiful, intelligent and fiercely ...
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Apr 25, 2002 · There can be no doubt that Sonia Orwell had an interesting life; vivid and complicated in her early years, drunkenly angry and anxious towards the end, but with friends who cared enough about her to put up with her and even, decades later, to write a biography designed, as Hilary Spurling’s explicitly is, to stem ‘the tide of venom that ...
May 5, 2004 · In her preface of 'The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell' Hilary Spurling tells us that Sonia, the widow of George Orwell, was depicted as "heartless, greedy and manipulative" in Michael Shelden's 'Orwell. The Authorised Biography' - a portrayal which Ms Spurling felt was based on ignorance, misconception and distortion.
- Hilary Spurling
Dec 10, 2020 · "The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend Hilary Spurling, herself an acclaimed biographer, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life."
