Orwell was very lonely after Eileen's death, and desperate for a wife, both as companion for himself and as mother for Richard.

The novelist L. H. Myers anonymously gave £ 300 to enable this and Orwell went with his wife to North Africa where he stayed, in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh, from September 1938 to March 1939.

The headmaster's wife at St Cyprian's School, Mrs. Cicely Vaughan Wilkes ( nicknamed " Flip "), taught Orwell English and used the same method to illustrate good writing to her pupils.

Eileen Maud O ' Shaughnessy ( 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945 ) was the first wife of British writer George Orwell.

Sonia Mary Brownell ( 25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980 ) was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.

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.

In 1974 Crick started work on a biography of George Orwell with the help of Orwell's second wife Sonia Brownell.

* Eileen O ' Shaughnessy, wife of British writer George Orwell

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.

On the arrival of a British ILP Contingent about three weeks later, Orwell and the other English militiaman, Williams, were sent with them to Monte Oscuro.

Observing events from French Morocco Orwell wrote that they were "— only a by-product of the Russian Trotskyist trials and from the start every kind of lie, including flagrant absurdities, has been circulated in the Communist press.

Conditions at the farmhouse were primitive but the natural history and the challenge of improving the place appealed to Orwell.

Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels " ( 1946 ) Orwell wrote: " If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

Historian John Rodden stated: " John Podhoretz did claim that if Orwell were alive today, he ’ d be standing with the neo-conservatives and against the Left.

Orwell suggested that cheap newspapers were no more than a vehicle for advertising and anti-leftist propaganda, and predicted the world might soon see free newspapers which would drive legitimate dailies out of business.

Orwell was noted for very close and enduring friendships with a few friends, but these were generally people with a similar background or with a similar level of literary ability.

After Sonia Brownell's death, other works on Orwell were published in the 1980s, with 1984 being a particularly fruitful year for Orwelliana.

With albums such as Wish You Were Here ( 1975 ), an ode to former band member Syd Barrett and screed against the music business and Animals ( 1977 ), a concept album based on Animal Farm by George Orwell, they were firmly in the realm of symphonic prog.

" Orwell did not wish to publish under his own name Eric Blair, and Orwell was the name he used from then on for his main works — although many periodical articles were still published under the name Eric Blair.

Despite a defence campaign backed by the likes of George Orwell, Michael Tippett, T. S. Eliot, and Benjamin Britten, Vernon, Sansom and Hewetson were convicted and served nine months in jail.

The Thought Police of Orwell and their pursuit of thoughtcrime were based on the methods used by the totalitarian states and ideologies of the 20th century.

" The reviews were among the best that Orwell had received for a novel.

While members with a training in scientific socialism have been surprised at the naïveté of the second part, they have found it valuable, as showing how much education they still have to do .." Orwell biographers Stansky & Abrahams noted: " But Gollancz and Laski, believing in a scientific rather than an emotional socialism, believing ( in 1937 ) that it was still possible to equip people to fight against war and Fascism, were caught in a time warp: history was leaving them behind.

In 1790, there were plans for a link from Bury St Edmunds to the River Orwell at Mistley, which John Rennie surveyed, but it involved heavy engineering work, including a tunnel, and the estimated cost of £ 75, 000 could not be raised.

Walter John Christie, who followed Orwell to Eton, wrote that she preached the virtues of " simplicity, honesty, and avoidance of verbiage ", and pointed out that the qualities Flip most prized were later to be seen in Orwell ’ s writing.

John Rodden claims, given that much of Orwell's work was polemical, he sometimes violated these rules and Orwell himself concedes he has no doubt violated some of them in the very essay in which they were included.

They were particularly active in supporting the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and around twenty-five members and sympathisers ( including George Orwell ) went to Spain to assist the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) as part of an ILP Contingent of volunteers.

( Orwell would have met Mrs Obermeyer at the Fierzes, who were mutual friends ).

She and Richard were living at Greystone at the time, with Orwell working in Paris as a war correspondent for The Observer.

In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens.

As a child Orwell ( under his real name Eric Blair ) published poems praising Kitchener and war recruitment in his local newspaper.

Gollancz published the work under the Left Book Club which gave Orwell a far higher circulation than his previous works.

The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he would later become famous, " George Orwell ", because of his love for the river.

He exchanged public correspondence with George Orwell defending pacifism in the open letter / poem " Letter to an American Visitor " under the pseudonym " Obadiah Hornbrooke.

Orwell accused Cockburn of being under the control of the Communist Party and was critical of the way Cockburn reported the Barcelona May Days.

EAR re-launched Orwell and Saxon as one station under the SGR fm banner in 1992 and also won the licence to start SGR Colchester in Essex the following year.

It is regarded as a reference to Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken under whom Orwell worked during the war, creating propaganda, and whom Orwell detested.

Set in Burma, where Orwell ( under his real name of Eric Arthur Blair ) had served in the British Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927, it describes the execution of a criminal.

Some of these were written under the names of " Orwell " and Hermann Kunst.

Contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear warfare, Orwell wrote:

Contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war, he warned of a “ peace that is no peace ”, which he called a permanent “ cold war ”, Orwell directly referred to that war as the ideological confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Western powers.