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Orwell in Paris: War Correspondent*

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on July 13, 2020

Wearing the uniform of a British officer, George Orwell returned to Paris in February 1945 as a war correspondent for The Observer and Manchester Evening […]

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Orwell in Paris: Aunt Nellie

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on January 21, 2020

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 […]

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Orwell in Paris: Edith Morgan

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on March 17, 2019

“I have heard briefly from Edith Morgan, at Christmas. She was visiting in Rome.” […]

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Orwell in Paris: Ruth Graves II

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on January 27, 2019

“I came back to America in 1939, in October, but do not feel that I am at home yet. New York has been most inhospitable […]

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Orwell in Paris: Ruth Graves

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on January 16, 2019

“Among the letters in Orwell’s possession at his death was one from Ruth Graves, whom he had known twenty years earlier, in Paris. She had, […]

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'Down and Out in Paris and London' was banned in Australia until 1953. #Orwell himself made a note of the fact in 1949 for his literary executors. #Orwelltrivia

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Added Henri #Barbusse's 'Inferno' (expurgated) tran. John Rodker 1932 + 'Hell' (unexpurgated) tran. Robert Baldick 1966 (artwork by Charles Mosley) to my #pariscollection. A scandalous look at Parisian boarding houses originally published in 1908. #Orwell darcymoore.net/paris… pic.twitter.com/BW13…

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#ants aeon.co/videos/incre… via @aeonmag

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#Orwell’s bust vandalised at his Motihari birthplace toi.in/dynY2b96/a24g… via @timesofindia

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Australia's freedom of information regime labelled 'dysfunctional' in scathing audit theguardian.com/aust… #auspol

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IMHO George Woodcock wrote more insightfully about Orwell than anyone else who knew him. He also founded NOW (1940-1947) which I have collected & started reading chronologically, from the first, stapled A4 edition. en.m.wikipedia.org/w… #Orwell #HowThePoorDie pic.twitter.com/PvwV…

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