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Glimpses of a Biographer’s Diaries 1961-2000
“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 January 1950 “…I have pulled together what he started, but sadly did not have a chance to finish…” Ramdei Bowker Gordon Bowker (1934-2019) published a biography of George Orwell (2003) […]
Orwell’s Library
“When I first read War and Peace I must have been twenty, an age at which one is not intimidated by long novels, and my sole quarrel with his book (three stout volumes—the length of perhaps four modern novels) was that it did not go on long enough. It seemed to me that Nicholas and […]
Jonathan Swift and Newspeak
Gulliver’s Travels meant more to George Orwell ‘than any other book ever written’ and was an important literary antecedent in the development of Newspeak. From the opening sentences of his first professional article as a journalist, published in Paris during 1928, Orwell was obsessively interested in how the state endeavoured to censor language: “The present […]
George Orwell’s Great Grandfather: Charles Blair (1776-1854)
“In England, for centuries past, our so-called aristocracy has been recruited by successive waves of scoundrels who have enriched themselves upon the current swindle and whose position depends solely upon money.” […]
Orwell: A Clergyman’s Grandson
A happy vicar I might have been Two hundred years ago, To preach upon eternal doom And watch my walnuts grow; But born, alas, in an evil time, I missed that pleasant haven, For the hair has grown on my upper lip And the clergy are all clean-shaven. (The Adelphi, December 1936) A Clergyman’s Daughter, […]
Two Letters: Orwell to Astor
“I admit he needs a little handling but he has a lot to give.” (David Astor, 22 Nov. 1942) The proprietor and editor of the Observer newspaper, David Astor (1912-2001), was an important figure in the story of George Orwell’s professional and personal life; nor can the significance of Orwell in Astor’s be underestimated. They […]
Elaine Talbert
I like the visual impact of Twitter Mosaic.
At the same time, I look at each picture and I can think about how much many of these people are contributing to my professional learning on a day to day basis.
I don’t know them as such, but they are having an impact on my life.
Elaine