In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.

( Orwell never learned the source of the money and he accepted it only on condition that it be considered a loan.

He reported that Gollancz had offered Orwell £ 500 to underwrite the trip, and but for Gollancz's support Orwell would never have gone.

" When it came to marrying, Orwell wrote to Gorer that " I should never be economically justified in marrying, so might as well be unjustified now as later ".

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.

However, Orwell states: " It will never be possible to get a completely accurate and unbiased account of the Barcelona fighting, because the necessary records do not exist.

George Orwell began his Reflections on Gandhi: " Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent …" Orwell concluded his essay with an attack on the idea of sainthood but praise for Gandhi: " One may feel, as I do, a sort of aesthetic distaste for Gandhi, one may reject the claims of sainthood made on his behalf ( he never made any such claim himself, by the way ), one may also reject sainthood as an ideal and therefore feel that Gandhi's basic aims were anti-human and reactionary: but regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!

The allusion is never explained in Orwell's text, but it is grimly ironic, since Orwell recollects his early boarding school experiences with unvarnished realism.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

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.

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 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.

* 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

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.