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Orwell married Eileen O ' Shaughnessy on 9 June 1936.
Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O ' Shaughnessy home at Greenwich.
Orwell was a democratic socialist and a left-libertarian sympathizer who expressed solidarity with the anarchist movement and social revolution, later commenting, " I had told everyone for a long time past that I was going to leave the P. O. U. M.
Eileen Maud O ' Shaughnessy ( 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945 ) was the first wife of British writer George Orwell.
O ' Shaughnessy met Orwell in the spring of 1935.
" Orwell and O ' Shaughnessy married the following year, on 9 June 1936, at St Mary's in Wallington.
In June 1944 Orwell and O ' Shaughnessy adopted a three-week old boy they named Richard Horatio Blair.
Although the poem was written a year before she met Orwell, there are striking similarities between the futuristic vision of O ' Shaughnessy's poem and that of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, including the use of mind control, and the eradication of personal freedom by a police state.
After the death of his first wife Eileen O ' Shaughnessy, Orwell became desperately lonely, and on 13 October 1949 married Brownell, three months before his death from tuberculosis.
Starring David Buck, Joseph O ' Conor, Jane Merrow and Cyril Shaps, it was broadcast in BBC2's Theatre 625 anthology series as part of a season of Orwell adaptations sub-titled The World of George Orwell, on 28 November 1965.
Orwell never reveals O ' Brien's first name.
* Eileen O ' Shaughnessy-wife of George Orwell
* Eileen O ' Shaughnessy, wife of British writer George Orwell
; December 30: George Orwell enlists himself in a Republican P. O. U. M.
* Orwell Station on 1946 O. S. map

Orwell and met
( Orwell would have met Mrs Obermeyer at the Fierzes, who were mutual friends ).
" The writers Stansky and Abrahams, while noting that the character Flory probably had his roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, ' with his opium-smoking and native women ', affirmed that Flory's " deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.
Orwell first met her when she worked as an assistant for Cyril Connolly, a friend of his from Eton College, at the literary magazine Horizon.
As chair of the ILP Guild of Youth, he visited Barcelona in 1937, where he again met Orwell.

Orwell and at
Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.
He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.
Wellington was " beastly ", Orwell told his childhood friend Jacintha Buddicom, but he said he was " interested and happy " at Eton.
'" Orwell wrote later that he felt guilty about his role in the work of empire and he " began to look more closely at his own country and saw that England also had its oppressed ..." Orwell made changes to his appearance in Burma that remained for the rest of his life.
One of these students, Elizaveta Fen, an autobiographer and future translator of Chekhov, recalled Orwell and his friend Richard Rees ' draped ' at the fireplace, looking, she thought, ' moth-eaten and prematurely aged.
Orwell needed somewhere he could concentrate on writing his book, and once again help was provided by Aunt Nellie, who was living at Wallington, Hertfordshire in a very small sixteenth-century cottage called the " Stores ".
On 4 August Orwell gave a talk at the Adelphi Summer School held at Langham, entitled An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas ; others who spoke at the School included John Strachey, Max Plowman, Karl Polanyi and Reinhold Niebuhr.
Unable to speak, and with blood pouring from his mouth, Orwell was carried on a stretcher to Siétamo, loaded on an ambulance and after a bumpy journey via Barbastro arrived at the hospital at Lleida.
In the first week of July 1937 Orwell arrived back at Wallington ; on 13 July 1937 a deposition was presented to the Tribunal for Espionage & High Treason, Valencia, charging the Orwells with ' rabid Trotskyism ', and being agents of the POUM.
In the latter part of his stay at the clinic Orwell was able to go for walks in the countryside and study nature.
" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.
In March the Orwells moved to St John's Wood in a 7th floor flat at Langford Court, while at Wallington Orwell was " digging for victory " by planting potatoes.
At the end of August he had a dinner with H. G. Wells which degenerated into a row because Wells had taken offence at observations Orwell made about him in a Horizon article.
In November 1943, Orwell was appointed literary editor at Tribune, where his assistant was his old friend Jon Kimche.
During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.
In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on " British Cookery ", complete with recipes, commissioned by the British Council.
Conditions at the farmhouse were primitive but the natural history and the challenge of improving the place appealed to Orwell.

Orwell and party
Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question the ruling party.
Orwell spins out to its last conclusion the illusion that the fate of freedom depends mainly on the colour of the ruling party.
The writer George Orwell served with the party and witnessed the Stalinist repression of the movement, which would form his anti-totalitarian ideas in later life.
In January 2000 he likened the Labour party to Big Brother in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and accused prime minister Tony Blair of being a " control freak ".
When the boat ’ s small engine suddenly sheared off from its mounts and dropped into the sea, Orwell ’ s party resorted to oars and was saved from drowning only when the whirlpool began to recede and the group managed to paddle the distressed craft to a rocky outcrop about a mile distant from the Jura coastline.
* Hall, Christopher ' Not Just Orwell ': The Independent Labour party Volunteers and the Spanish Civil War, Warren and Pell, Barcelona, 2009

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