In Burma, Orwell had acquired a reputation as an outsider — he spent much of his time alone, reading or pursuing non-pukka activities, such as attending the churches of the Karen ethnic group.

One of these, the trade union official Frank Meade, suggested Wigan, where Orwell spent February staying in dirty lodgings over a tripe shop.

* Author George Orwell ( 1903 – 1950 ) spent some of his formative years in Henley-on-Thames and the nearby village of Shiplake.

The writer George Orwell ( then known as Eric Blair ) spent time as a teenager and in his thirties in Southwold, living at his parents ' home.

In 1937 Orwell spent some months fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

Orwell spent his time living among the people and as such his descriptions are detailed and vivid.

Orwell spent five years from 1922 to 1927 as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police force in Burma ( now Myanmar ).

Orwell served in a number of locations in Burma ; having spent a year of police training in Mandalay and Maymyo, his postings included Myaungmya, Twante, Syriam, Insein-( north of Rangoon, site of the colony's most secure prison, and now present-day Burma's most notorious jail ),-Moulmein and Kathar.

Orwell was drafting it in Paris during the eighteen months he spent there in 1928 to 1929.

* George Orwell pen-name of Eric Blair, author, who spent some summers in Rickmansworth

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

At this time, Victor Gollancz suggested Orwell spend a short time investigating social conditions in economically depressed northern England.

" This was the time of the Barcelona May Days and Orwell was caught up in the factional fighting.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

Connolly brought with him Stephen Spender, a cause of some embarrassment as Orwell had referred to Spender as a " pansy friend " some time earlier.

They rented a villa on the road to Casablanca and during that time Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air.

During that time his sister's family visited, and Orwell led a disastrous boating expedition which nearly led to loss of life whilst trying to cross the notorious gulf of Corryvreckan and gave him a soaking which was not good for his health.

Orwell tried to promote the use of more precise language in political discourse, and he criticised political language popular at the time, such as " running-dog lackey " and " Fascist octopus ", which he said prevented thought.

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.

Despite returning several times, Orwell was characteristically acerbic about his time in Hayes, camouflaging it lightly as West Bletchley in Coming Up for Air, as Southbridge in A Clergyman's Daughter, and joking in a letter to author / friend Frank Jellinek:

The view that this was a specific commission with a £ 500 advance — two years ' income for Orwell at the time, is based on a recollection by Geoffrey Gorer who was interviewed for Melvyn Bragg's TV programme Omnibus in 1970.

Chapter Five explores unemployment and Orwell explains that the unemployment statistics of the time are misleading.

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.

He remained in the position for 27 years, during which time he turned it into a trust-owned newspaper employing, among others, George Orwell, Paul Jennings and C. A. Lejeune.

" By the time Orwell moved to Moulmein, in 1926, " he was most probably ambivalent about the colonial state of which he was a part.

A passport photo of Orwell, taken during his time in the Burmese police force.

From the time of his wife's death in March 1945 Orwell had maintained a high work rate, producing some 130 literary contributions, many of them lengthy.

Animal Farm had been published in August 1945 and Orwell was experiencing a time of critical and commercial literary success.

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 ".

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.

Orwell returned to Wallington, which he found in disarray after his absence.

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.

Orwell had to scrabble around in the rubble for his collection of books, which he had finally managed to transfer from Wallington, carting them away in a wheelbarrow.

In April 1947 Orwell left London for good, ending the leases on the Islington flat and Wallington cottage.

" Orwell and O ' Shaughnessy married the following year, on 9 June 1936, at St Mary's in Wallington.

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.

Orwell left Paris in December 1929 and returned to England, going straight home to his parents ' house in Southwold.

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.

After Orwell returned from Paris in December 1929, he used his parents ' house in Southwold as his base for the next five years.

Orwell was tutoring and writing at Southwold and he resumed his sporadic expeditions going undercover as a tramp in and around London.

In Suffolk, she befriended Richard and Ida Blair at Southwold, the parents of George Orwell, and later helped Orwell find lodgings in London in 1927, taking a vague interest in his writing, of which she was generally critical.