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.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

Orwell may have been the first to use the term cold war, in his essay, " You and the Atom Bomb ", published in Tribune, 19 October 1945.

" Orwell was a proponent of a federal socialist Europe, a position outlined in his 1947 essay " Toward European Unity ," which first appeared in Partisan Review.

Jeffrey Meyers, a prolific American biographer, was first to take advantage of this and published a book in 2001 that investigated the darker side of Orwell and questioned his saintly image.

** The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published by Fredric Warburg in London.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell.

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell ( Eric Blair ), published in 1933.

Whoever reduced Orwell to destitution did him a good turn ; his final ten weeks in Paris sowed the seed of his first published book.

One of the first acknowledgments of Henry Miller as a major modern writer was by George Orwell in his 1940 essay " Inside the Whale ", where he wrote:

In the 1920s and 1930s, he also edited the periodicals Monde and Progrès Civique, which published some of the first writings of George Orwell.

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937.

According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell's agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book.

In contrast to the straightforward documentary of the first part of the book, in part two Orwell discusses the relevance of socialism to improving living conditions.

Arthur Calder-Marshall ’ s March 20, 1937 review in Time and Tide celebrates Orwell ’ s achievement, and can be summarized by its first line: “ Of Mr Orwell ’ s book, there is little to say except praise .”

In Tribune on March 12, 1937, Walter Greenwood calls Part I “ authentic and first rate ” but was more ambivalent towards Part II: “ Part II, Orwell has you with him one moment and provoked beyond endurance the next.

He first came to know George Orwell after the two had a public disagreement in the pages of the Partisan Review.

" Shooting an Elephant " is an essay by George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in the autumn of 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948.

In Moulmein, the narrator — Orwell, writing in the first person — is a police officer during a period of intense anti-European sentiment.

" Developing themes Orwell began exploring in this essay, Newspeak first corrupts writers morally, then politically, " since it allows writers to cheat themselves and their readers with ready-made prose.

George Orwell wrote an essay, " In Defence of English Cooking ", first published in the Evening Standard on 15 December 1945.

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

Orwell and O ' Shaughnessy met at a party that Eric ( Orwell ) and Rosalind Obermeyer, gave in the spring of 1935 in Obermeyer's flat in Parliament Hill Road-" when the last guests had departed, he turned to Mrs Obermeyer and said: " Eileen O ' Shaughnessy is the girl I want to marry.

O ' Shaughnessy met Orwell in the spring of 1935.

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

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.

" 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.

As chair of the ILP Guild of Youth, he visited Barcelona in 1937, where he again met Orwell.

He was also spending time with Eleanor Jacques, but her attachment to Dennis Collings remained an obstacle to his hopes of a more serious relationship. The pen-name " George Orwell " was inspired by the River Orwell

Kirwan had just started working for a Foreign Office unit, the Information Research Department, set up by the Labour government to publish anti-communist propaganda, and Orwell gave her a list of people he considered to be unsuitable as IRD authors because of their pro-communist leanings.

It was in the home of Mabel Fierz, who had, with her husband, a London businessman named Francis, been for a number of years a visitor to Southwold in the summer, and who was on friendly terms with the Blairs, that Orwell discarded the typescript.

A French translation made by Yvonne Davet – with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes – in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.

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.

It was through her brother's marriage to Gwen Hunton that she and Orwell had access to Greystone, near Carlton, where they stayed in 1944 / 45.

The writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams noted in their study of Orwell that, " Very likely the tininess of The Stores, house in Wallington, Hertfordshire, where they kept animals in the garden -, appealed to her fantasy side.

Although in later life Brownell often went by the name Sonia Orwell, this was never legally her name as ' Orwell ' was merely a pen name that her husband ( real name Eric Arthur Blair ) had chosen.

He asserted that, in his book, Dershowitz attributes an Orwellian neologism to George Orwell, when actually Peters coined it in her book in an allusion to Orwell, in which she mentioned him by name: her neologism " turnspeak " alluded to Orwell's famous Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Le Guin may have named her protagonist " George Orr " as an homage to British author George Orwell, as well as to draw comparisons between the dystopic worlds she describes in Lathe, and the dystopia Orwell envisioned in his novel 1984.

Alibhai-Brown has won numerous awards for her journalism, including the EMMA Media Personality of the Year in 2000, the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism in 2002 and the EMMA Award for Journalism in 2004.

Ultimately, Sunny engages in a teeth-sword fight with Dr. Orwell after the evil doctor hypnotized her brother Klaus.

He considered the work " grossly exaggerated, badly written, and likely to harm Orwell ’ s reputation " and when Sonia insisted, he told her, " You ’ re completely nutty about St Cyprian's ".

Dr. Orwell was killed just before she got the chance to slash Sunny's throat, when she accidentally backed into a saw that had been turned on for use in her and Count Olaf's conspiracy to steal the Baudelaire fortune.