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Which edition of George Orwell’s most famous novel is on your shelf and why does it matter? The first British and American editions of Orwell’s […]
Homage to Stansky and Abrahams: Orwell’s first biographers*
“I request that no memorial service be held for me after my death and that no biography of me shall be written.” (Eric Blair, 18 […]
Orwell in Paris: Aunt Nellie
George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-1950) died seventy years ago today, on the 21st January 1950. His favourite aunt, Nellie Limouzin (1870-1950), passed away five […]
Orwell’s typewriter
“I am just on the grisly job of typing out my novel. I can’t type much because it tires me too much to sit up […]
Leon Gellert, George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
“As a child I lived in a home that was full of books … Rare works and first editions were kept under lock and key, […]
Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry & Slavery*
“He hated Scotsmen!” Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly because he disliked […]
Orwell’s Streptomycin
“I am a lot better, but I had a bad fortnight with the secondary effects of the streptomycin. I suppose with all these drugs it’s […]
Tombs: Sharing Orwell’s Penchant for Puncturing Shibboleths
This review originally appeared in George Orwell Studies Volume 3 Number 2. George Orwell continues to have an extraordinary influence on how the English view England, writes […]
Orwell in Paris: Edith Morgan
“According to the 1926 French census, there were 17,966 Americans in France, of which 9,363 were in the Seine Department that included Paris.“ Nancy L […]
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Eric Blair in Katha
Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Indian Imperial Police Force, Eric Arthur Blair, was based in Upper Burma, at Katha, from 23 December 1926 until […]