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Geoffrey Grigson on Orwell
“I once too had known this Eric Blair. But I had never had cause to remember him. I had forgotten that he was called Eric Blair, I had forgotten the encounter, until, last week…”. […]
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
The 80th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s novel has been celebrated this week from a range of perspectives in the mainstream media. Richard Blair wrote an article in The Guardian and The Orwell Society published a number of posts at the website by members. What follows is some less well-known insights into the publication […]
(Review) Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler: A Master Governor in British India (1890–1928)
Title: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler: A Master Governor in British India (1890–1928) Author: Michael Fenwick Macnamara Published: 12 November 2024 ISBN: 9781803746586 Imprint: Peter Lang Verlag Format: Trade Paperback Pages: XVIII, 482 Pages RRP: US $112.95 “Sir Harcourt Butler, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., who died yesterday at the age of 68, was one of the greatest Indian […]
Orwell, the Anglo-Indian
George Orwell’s ambivalent relationship with his Anglo-Indian heritage is mostly discussed in the context of critiquing his writing set in Burma or when considering why he joined the Indian Imperial Police as a teenager (and his resignation five years later). Burmese Days, his ‘crisp, fierce, and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian’; The Road to […]
Orwell’s Window
“On being demobilised in 1945—having by then lived through the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second World War—I found that my social conscience was sufficiently blunted to allow me to consider devoting my whole time to painting, which I had already toyed with as a sort of occupational therapy in 1935–6; […]
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) […]